Chapter 6
Oracle Designer 2.1.2.API: Enforcing Column Naming Standards
Hervé Deschamps
The bigger the project, the more important the naming standards. This chapter focuses on column naming standards. We present a simple technique and a utility to enforce it. Of course, this technique can be extended to tables, foreign key, indexes, modules, entities, attributes, etc. The utility in this chapter was tested by the author on a number of versions of Oracle's CASE tool, from Designer 2000 1.3.2 to Oracle Designer 2.1.2.
Part of the task of enforcing naming standards can be reduced to a simple search and replace function, just as in a word processor. For example, we can look for all instances of the character string MODIFIED and replace them with ...
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