
April 19th, 2012, 05:10 PM
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Any software for database design able to draw polymorphic associations
polymorphic asociation is an association (like has one and has many) but allows to point many types of models/entities.
Like email, user has many emails, company has many emails, workers has many emails, etc.
So email handles a polymorphic association, something like
email
entity_type : string
entity_id : integer
and type can be "company" "user" "worker" etc., pretty much most ORM implementation of polymorphic association.
this is like emails "belongs to" user or worker or company, etc.
is there any database design software that allow to design/draw this kind of associations ? even if a mod/plugin is needed
ive using powerdesigner for a while, but doesnt allow this type of associations, and they really common these days on frameworks and ORMs.
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