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Designing a Schema

If the application you’re building with Enterprise Objects accesses an existing database, its schema dictates many of the design decisions you’ll make when modeling enterprise objects. However, if you’re designing a database schema while designing enterprise objects, you have more flexibility and you can design a database schema that takes advantage of features of enterprise objects, such as faulting.

If you’re designing the database schema while you design enterprise objects, be sure to keep both designs in mind as you work; decisions you make about either design affect the other.

This chapter doesn’t directly address issues of database design, but the information presented here helps you create a design that works effectively with the Enterprise Objects frameworks.

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