[AccessD] Design Question

Here is a data model example using people and roles
People in households and companies - modelling human relationships
http://allenbrowne.com/AppHuman.html

Susan Harkins wrote:

>I'm with William on this one. I'd have just one table of people and use
>another table to track their roles. 
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>Susan H. 
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>...as usual, I do it a bit differently ...master table for "entity" with an
>ID, and type ...one to one child tables for orgs and persons using the
>entity ID ...then build a many to one role table as child to the master in
>which the entity can show in several different roles without denormalizing
>the relationships or data ...then you can show the person's role in both
>internal and external orgs ...hope that makes sense.
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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada