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Type Inheritance

Type inheritance applies to named row types only. You can use inheritance to group named row types into a type hierarchy in which each subtype inherits the representation (data fields) and the behavior (UDRs, aggregates, and operators) of the supertype under which it is defined. A type hierarchy provides the following advantages:

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