[development] Taxonomy: Multiple parents?
    Gerhard Killesreiter 
    gerhard at killesreiter.de
       
    Tue Jul 24 11:32:43 UTC 2007
    
    
  
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Robert Douglass schrieb:
> In my opinion, any time multiple parents are used it is a mistake in the
> data model. For example, if you have regional offices and each office
> has a sale, customer and advertising contact person, you might be
> tempted to model the data like this:
How about:
Fish living in:
- - salt water
. shark
. salmon
. eel
. cod
- - fresh water
. trout
. salmon
. eel
. carp
Cheers,
	Gerhard
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