ORM manager will populate the data stored in the persistent storage like a database in the form of an object graph. ORM manager will use different object mapping strategies like table per hierarchy [TPH], table per type [TPT] or table per concrete class [TPC], etc. in populating the object graph. LINQ to SQL is based on TPH. Hibernate supports TPC, TPH and table per subclass mapping strategy [1]. Following is an example of the TPH.
Table Per Hierarchy ORM implementation
Reference:
1. http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/inheritance.html accessed on 08/21/2008
