Naming and Defining Entities and Attributes

In data modeling, and in systems development in general, it is important to select clear and well thought out names for objects. The results of your efforts become a clear, concise, and unambiguous model of a business area.

Naming standards and conventions are identical for all types of logical models, including both the Entity Relationship diagrams (ERD) and Key-based (KB) diagrams.

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