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ENTITY – RELATIONSHIP MODEL Melissa Ann D. Callejo Chairmane Abanilla
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Is a specialized graphic that illustrates the relationships between entities in a database. often use symbols to represent three different types of information. BOX - commonly used to represent entities Diamond - used to represent relationships
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OVAL - used to represent attributes
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ENTITY - is an existing or real thing - used to identify units, whether concrete things or abstract ideas, that have no ready name or label
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In Entity Relationship Model Entity : > correspond to a table - not a row- in a relational environment. The ERM refers to a table row as an entity instance or entity occurrence.
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ENTITY INSTANCE Example ENTITY – PEOPLE INSTANCE – JOHNNY DEPP
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Entity Occurrence is an instance of an entity Billy Jones (ie: SN12345, Billy, Jones, 18/08/1950) is an entity occurrence. An entity occurrence can also be referred to as a record.
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ATTRIBUTES -information about each entity
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If the font is boldface, these are required fields.
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If the attribute is underlined, it indicates that it serves as the database’s primary key.
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PRIMARY KEY
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Optional Attributes attribute that does not require a value, it can be left empty. For example: PhoneNumber
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Composite Attributes Can be subdivided to yield additional attributes. Example: Address can be divided into Street, city, state, zipcode
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Simple Attributes Cannot be subdivided Example: age, gender, Religion
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Single-Valued Attributes Can have only a single value Example: Student and ID Number
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Multivalued Attributes Attribute that hold multiple values. A customer can have multiple phone numbers, email id's etc
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Stored and Derived Attributes Stored Attribute: An attribute that supplies a value to the related attribute. > Date of Birth Derived Attribute: An attribute that’s value is derived from a stored attribute. > age, and it’s value is derived from the stored attribute Date of Birth.
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Complex Attribute A complex attribute that is both composite and multi valued.
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Chen and Crow’s Foot Notation Chen’s Notation
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Crow’s Foot Notation
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references http://databases.about.com/od/specific products/l/blentity-relationship- diagrams.htm http://databases.about.com/od/specific products/l/blentity-relationship- diagrams.htm http://www.jkinfoline.com/attribute- types.html
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