Hello Martijn,

>That might be entirely dependent on how the rest of his database design
>looks and what the application actually does.

TBL_COMPANY and TBL_PERSON contain different fields specific to each
party type.

That is the classical argument about mapping objects to RDBMS e.g.
ease of use vs. normalization. Mapping objects to tables or mapping
hierarchies to tables :)


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Alexander mailto:saho@...