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3 – Schema Architecture StrategiesFigure 3-1: Portion of the HomeLending schema that will be presented in thischapter.It is worth noting, in regard to the introduction of the Income_Schemadatabase object schema, that in reality we would probably extend this concept,for example creating a "Borrower" database object schema for the borrowertables rather than have all the remaining tables in the dbo schema. However,we've kept things relatively simple here in order to better illustrate the conceptsin this book.The fourth strand of our strategy, not depicted in Figure 3-1, is the abstractionof the database schema, using views, in order to simplify data queries for theend user and also prevent them from viewing unauthorized data.63