Trent Shipley wrote:
At the risk of belaboring the point, relational single inheritance resembles
a hierarchical database, like a traditional computer file system. A
relational multiple inheritance database resembles a network database, like
the once promising CODASYL standard or the GROVE or
Relational Inheritance Thoughts
The most fundamental property of relational inheritance is that it creates
hierarchies of relations that act as composite relations. That is,
relational inheritance produces a tree of relations (presumably tables) that
itself can be treated as a relation. The
