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Thank you, Terry. That answers my question about NORMA's functionality, and your suggested work-arounds would work well for me. I agree with all the posted comments on the separation of conceptual and logical/physical modeling concerns, and usually follow them in my own practice. I simply needed a compromise approach in this ...

A domain expert would speak at the type level, e.g., by referring to "a payer" for a claim. A payer always has a first and a last name among other attributes. For example, both the party responsible for a claim payment and the party making that payment would be of type "payer". Normally I would consider "payer" ...

 Ken, Your example and citation are very helpful. Thank you. The reason that I am interested in how to represent a user-defined data type is that I am using an ORM model to capture the conceptual view of a database that is implemented in Cassandra, and the application development team has proposed using a user-defined type (UDT).  The ...

What is the best way to model a user-defined data type? I tried the approach outlined below, which also is shown in the image that I uploaded. I would like to invite comments on the approach and learn what others have done.  I created a custom data type called PersonalName, which has two attributes: FirstName and LastName.I used the ORM ...