CA ERWIN DATA MODELLER NAMING STANDARDS

Canadian Federal Government Department

Logical Object Naming

Entity - Initial Case With Spaces Attribute lower_case_with_underscore Document Security - UNCLASSIFIED in upper right-hand corner Primary/foreign key GUID VARCHAR(32) [Global Unique IDentifier] Colouring blue, green, and pink Domain Data Typing _underscore_abbreviated_domain_datatype

Logical Object Colouring

Objects blue Lookup Data - green Object Components - pink

Logical Object Domain Data Typing 1 of 2

_acronym _by _cd _cost _date _datetime _email _from _group _id _ind VARCHAR(20) VARCHAR(20) modified by VARCHAR(3), VARCHAR(20), VARCHAR(30) code MONEY initial hardware cost DATE, DATETIME DAY TO MINUTE DATETIME DAY TO MINUTE VARCHAR(100) e-mail address VARCHAR(100) ip address range from VARCHAR(20) VARCHAR(32) GUID (Global Unique Identifier) BOOLEAN indicator, flag

Logical Object Domain Data Typing 2 of 2

_name VARCHAR(20) external support organization name _nbr INTEGER, MONEY, VARCHAR(15), VARCHAR(100) numeric, number, telephone, MB, GB _role VARCHAR(20) _status VARCHAR(100) current deployment status _title VARCHAR(20) _to VARCHAR(100) ip address range to _txt VARCHAR(20), VARCHAR(100) text _used VARCHAR(100) ip address used