What is inheritance? Define it in detail?

 Inheritance

Inheritance can be at the levels of types, or at the level of tables we first consider inheritance of types, then inheritance at the level of labels.

Type inheritance

Assume that we have the following type definition for people

create type person

(name varchar(20)

address varchar(20))

Table inheritance

Create table people of person

The consistency requirements for sub tables are

1. Each tuple of the sub table can correspond to at most single tuple in each of its immediate sub tables.

2. SQL:1999 has an additional constraint that all the tuples corresponding to each other must be derived from single tuple .