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You create naming standards so that everyone in your organization uses names correctly and consistently. Use NSM Options Editor to create naming standards and develop a glossary that contains glossary words, their abbreviations, and alternate abbreviations.
You can create multiple NSM Option objects and apply one of them to a model. Each NSM Option object includes the naming standards for logical and physical model objects, and the glossary. The components of logical and physical model names are prime, modifier, or class. To define naming standards for entities, tables, attributes, columns, and domains you specify the components and the order in which they are to be presented.
If you do not use naming standards, you may have modeling design problems that produce errors when you run queries to extract sets of data.
You can apply naming standards in three ways, as illustrated in the following diagram:
Follow these steps apply naming standards:
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