The Sales Tracking Application
I have used a naming convention so that the relational objects associated with this application can be easily identified when looking at any data-dictionary view such as DBA_Tables, or even TAB. Because this is a Sales Tracking application, I chose ST to depict the initial prefix to every table, index, or object (tables, indexes, triggers, and so on) that is part of this application. I also like to use part of the table as a prefix to each column name. This really assists the programmer or end user when working with the SQL language because a column name directly refers to one table or another. You will notice that I have prefixed all the application objects with ST_; all the column attributes have part or all of ...
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