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- Attributes may have the same domain, e.g. cname and
employee-name.
- It is not as clear whether bname and cname domains
ought to be distinct.
- At the implementation level, they are both character strings.
- At the conceptual level, we do not expect customers to have the same
names as branches, in general.
- Strong typing of domains allows us to test for values inserted,
and whether queries make sense.
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