At 10:10 PM 7/03/2004 +1100, you wrote:

> > Now, an object-relational model, there's another story... <g>
> >
> > Table.Clone, anyone?
> >
> > /h
>
>gee - and think of the long dependency trees you'd have to manage and you'd
>have to deny people to ability to delete ancestors

You would - but the ancestors would be system objects. Long dependency
trees? Hope not. Heck, those days were gone 20 years ago. Just a base
class and antecedents to fit the rules of the business model. Who wants to
build rabbit warrens?
/hb