[ orm-Feature Requests-1441283 ] Object Absorption

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Feature Requests item #1441283, was opened at 2006-03-01 13:52
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Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Bernd (bvanskiver)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Object Absorption

Initial Comment:
It would be nice if I could chose to have an entity
type be absorbed in to another entity type on a
database implementation. For example, if I have a User
entity type and an Address entity type. I could say
User has Address and Address would then maintain all
its own facts (such as Address has City, Address has
State). This way I could use Address on multiple
relationships (Customer has Address, CreditCard has
Address). The absorption would then make it so that
there is not an Address table when the database is
created. Basically it would denormalize the database
automatically. This would help when an entity type is
related to many other entity types and the relationship
is always required.

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