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Asked: 2026-05-16T17:14:49+00:00

I have a situation where I need to create a ‘master object’ instance by

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I have a situation where I need to create a ‘master object’ instance by which all others will inherit from, in a project that uses the Entity Framework (4.0).

I could just set up this object, and add a record to the database for it, and everything pull from that. But that seems …like a real waste. An entire table, for one record?

There is high possibility that the ‘master’ will change over time, and the inheriting objects need to reflect this. But I really want to do this more efficiently. Is there any alternative than just wasting an entire table that’ll hold 1 record?

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  1. Editorial Team

    First thing first.

    Measure.

    Is a “whole table” really such a waste that warrants any further discussion? Does it really consume too much disk space, memory or CPU?

    Or is a simpler design and a faster delivery of the code worth the cost of a few bytes?

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