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• to prefix the name of an attribute with the name of the entity (or an
abbreviation of the entity name) in which it occurs.
• For example, in the CUSTOMER entity, the customer’s credit limit may
be called CUS_CREDIT_LIMIT.
• The CUS indicates that the attribute is descriptive of the CUSTOMER
entity, while CREDIT_LIMIT makes it easy to recognize the data that
will be contained in the attribute.