inheritance

On EF Core 11, default to TPH for almost every hierarchy, reach for TPC only when you mostly query one leaf type and a benchmark proves it wins, and use TPT only when an external constraint forces you to.

TPH is EF Core's default inheritance strategy: one table, one discriminator column. Here is how to configure the discriminator, share columns, handle nullable derived properties, and the gotchas on EF Core 11.