2. Overview of Tools and Languages : Terms and Concepts : Naming Conventions for Applications and Components : Enterprise Access Products
 
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Enterprise Access Products
For databases accessed through Enterprise Access products, component naming conventions are identical to the above. In particular:
Names can be 1 to 32 bytes long.
Windows: Limit names to 8 to 12 characters maximum to avoid exceeding the 126-character Microsoft Windows command line limit.
Most names are case insensitive, regardless of the case sensitivity of the underlying database accessed through an Enterprise Access Product. Table names and some other database names can be case sensitive if the underlying DBMS supports this.
The following sections describe the application components in the order in which you encounter them as you design an application.