=?Utf-8?B?RGVubmlz?= wrote in
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Response: You are absolutely correct. The entity, at least from
12 independent software houses that I know of, is the policy. The
policy, regardless of which line of business, has about 100 to 200
common fields.

I would love to see one of those tables. My bet is that I could make
a much more extensible structure with none of the tables having more
than 30 fields and maybe only even one of them having that many
(most of the data would end up in tables that had only two or three
or four fields).

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