Storing Relationships

The run-time object model and the storage schema differ significantly. These differences are most apparent when you query a Microsoft® Repository database for information about relationships. In fact, the storage of relationships and the run-time manipulation of relationships differ profoundly.

Repository uses the RTblRelships table to store information about relationships. An individual row of the table can be any of the following:

• A description of an individual version-to-version relationship.
  
  
• A description of a set of version-to-version relationships.
  
  
• A description of sequencing and pinning information for a single origin versioned relationship.