DATA NAMING CONVENTIONS
The purpose of a data naming convention
A data naming convention should be developed to provide consistent, unique and meaningful names for all existing and new items within the enterprise’s common data resource. A consistent approach to data naming should be applied across the enterprise to help achieve unambiguous understanding of data. Data names need to be both unique and meaningful to the business; unique so that the data objects to which they refer can be unambiguously identified and meaningful so that the terms used in the names are terms familiar to the business. Technical terms and abbreviations should be avoided wherever possible.
The data names should, however, also aid communication between all those involved ...
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