How to Build a Business Rules Engine

However, it is possible that the rules engine designer will need to have special

rules engine functionality not only for reference data tables, but also for other kinds

of table. If this is the case, a Table Type Code attribute will need to be implemented

in Table. A corresponding reference data table called Table Type will also need to be

implemented. Each record in Table Type would be for a different type of table

(perhaps following the scheme suggested in Table 8.1). This is not required in the

sample application, so neither Table Type Code nor Table Type are included in the

Business Rules Repository.

Data Model Entity ID

The section “Issues with Table ID as the Primary Key” discussed reasons why Table

should not be identified with an internal entity ...