Split & partitioned entities

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Did you remember to map the address properties of the Supplier entity after your break? Good. Let’s move on:

Here is a database schema that represents a SPLIT ENTITY, where a single logical entity is represented by two tables. Database administrators often create a schema like this for efficiency, usually because the secondary table isn’t used very often:

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