Can you give a concrete example illustrating what you mean? Generally I stay 
away from enforcing business rules with the schema. When business rules change, 
as they always do, you're boned. I use the schema to enforce data integrity.

Ramsey

On Feb 26, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Ken Anderson wrote:

> All,
> 
> I have a difficult decision to make and am waffling back and forth.  I'm 
> hoping some of you guys might have come across a similar situation and would 
> have some recommendations.
> 
> I have a model where a number of entities can by applied only to males or 
> only to females (it's an exercise app).  Part of me wants to create 
> sub-entities called "Male…" and "Female…" because EOF will effectively 
> validate relationships for me.  Unfortunately, it's a pretty deep entity 
> hierarchy and there would be a lot of entities that would have to fall into 
> this category.  Not to mention there are join tables that wouldn't have an 
> M/F flag, but to stay consistent would have to be subclassed as well.
> 
> Any thoughts?  I would do them all with single table inheritance, so there 
> wouldn't be much of a performance hit.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken
> 
> 
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