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And containment hierarchies can be used to give global names to 
subordinate entities by prefixing their names with the name of their 
parent. I guess this is what you were proposing to do in your table via 
the parent id?

regards

David

On 23/01/2013 20:47, Adam Young wrote:
> On 01/23/2013 03:38 PM, David Chadwick wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 23/01/2013 20:23, Adam Young wrote:
>>> Users, Groups and projects are owned by a domain.  This is an attribute
>>> hierarchy.
>>
>> this is not the type of hierarchy I was talking about. Attribute
>> hierarchies are object oriented hierarchies in which subtypes inherit
>> all the properties of the supertypes. So for example, the surname
>> attribute type is a subtype of the name attribute type.
>>
>> What you are talking about is a containment hierarchy, in which
>> domains contain projects, and projects contain users. A Venn diagram
>> can be used to nicely depict the containment hierarchy.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> David
> Ah, yes, I see the distinction.  No, I was not talking about object
> hierarchies, just organizational hierarchies.