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Choose Between Embedded Schemas and Associations

Choose Between Embedded Schemas and Associations

Learn when to prefer embedded schemas over associations, and when not to.

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Advantages of embedded schemas

Embedded schemas have some advantages over associations.

  • Since the child records are stored with the parent, we don’t have to use joins or Repo.preload to fetch ...