in reply to Mapping objects to database tables

No need to reinvent the learnings of Database Normalization. Perhaps reading that will give you a clearer idea.

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Re^2: Mapping objects to database tables
by clinton (Priest) on Nov 07, 2006 at 13:26 UTC
    But this isn't about redundant data. There is no repeated data in any of these designs - they are all normalised.

    I am going to read the article, but, unless I'm mistaken (which is entirely likely), this isn't it.

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      It's not normalized ... people can die shortly after being married. I could insert something funny here but my wife may be lurking :-)

      -derby
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        See my comment here re why I haven't normalised firstname/surname.
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