15.10. Implementing Inheritance
Telerik OpenAccess ORM supports different inheritance scenarios for persistent classes. You can define your classes' inheritance, and OpenAccess will generate the backend database code to support them. Inheritance is only supported in forward mapping scenarios though.
There are four supported mapping strategies: flat, vertical, mixed (flat and vertical), and horizontal. In all four strategies, a discriminator column is used to determine which type each record represents.
To show how these strategies are supported, I created the classes and inheritance strategy shown in Figure 15-20.
Figure 15.20. Classes inheritance
15.10.1. Flat Mapping
The default mapping strategy is flat mapping. Flat mapping means that ...
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