>Well, jokes aside, this is a semantic issue, and doesn't have anything to do with the actual database schema. This is one of the important premises of the Entity Framework. Quite often you have logical entities and sub-entities with specifically related attributes, and then the schema is normalized in a totally different way, for the sake of performance, space, etc. This is where O/R mapping comes into place to be -as Ted Neward says- the Vietnam of Computer Science... <s>
Yes Martín, we were just talking about this with Doru. Of course that did not stop me from joking <g>
"The five senses obstruct or deform the apprehension of reality."
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"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
Donald Knuth, repeating C. A. R. Hoare
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