Relationships Between Public Interface Tables › Interpreting Entity Type Names

Interpreting Entity Type Names

In the data models, if an entity type's name is uppercase, the entity type represents a Public Interface table.

If an entity type's name is lowercase, the entity type represents a generalization, not a PI table. For example, in the illustration for business system defaults, the tables PARM_DELIMITER and PARM_STRING_DEL are subtypes of the generalization, parameter delimiters. Parameter delimiters is not a table name and appears in lowercase, as shown in the following illustration:

The dashed line represents a partitioning into subtypes.