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So Bob, what happened with all your sabre-rattling arguments about...
 Originally Posted by Bob Just
... I know lots of people - Oracle included - who would disagree.
From a datatype standpoint alone, I disagree.
You don't buy 10.57 bananas!
"ItemQuantity" is an Integer. "TotalGallons" is a Real number. As such, they aren't logically the same thing.
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I can see a single "Quantity" field in the last version of your documentation. Are you going against your own convictions and the opinion of "lots of people -Oracle included" just to make me happy? that's very brave indeed.
You know what... you are welcome! Oops... you forgot to say "thank you" 
Today is your lucky day Bob, here is a hint. In your current design -which in any way means I'm endorsing it - your sub-type tables should have a one-to-one relationship with your ExpenseDetail table, not a one-to-many with Expense table; it just doesn't work. I'm telling you this just because it hurt my eyes.
Now you are free to say whatever you want -that's immaterial - you already know sooner or later you will have to revise it and do what I'm suggesting.
Pablo (Paul) Berzukov
Author of Understanding Database Administration available at amazon and other bookstores.
Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
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