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What is an Entity Relationship Diagram?
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An Entity Relationship Diagram is a graphic that is speacialized to illustrate or give examples of the inter – relationships between entities in a database.
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What are the symbols used in Entity Relationship Diagrams?
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Entity relationship diagrams often use symbols to represent three different types of information Boxes –are commonly used to represent entities. Diamonds-are normally used to represent relationships. Ovals-are used to represent attributes.
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What is one-one relationship?
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One-one relationship occurs when there is exactly one record in the first table
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Example of One-one relationship
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If a database table contains a few columns of data that is frequently used and the remaining columns being infrequently used, the database designer may split the single table into 2 tables linked through a one-to-one relationship. Such a design would reduce the overhead needed to retrieve the infrequently used columns whenever query is performed on the contents of the database table.
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What is One-many Relationship?
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One –many Relationships occurs when each record in a table labelled “A” have many linked records in a table labelled “B” which has only one corresponding recording in Table A
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Example of One-many Relationship
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All the customers belonging to a business is stored in a customer table while all the customer invoices are stored in an invoice table. Each customer can have many invoices but each invoice can only be generated for a single customer.
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What is Many-many Relationship?
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Many-many relationship is when one record in either table can relate to many records in the other table.
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Example of Many-many relationship
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All the customers belonging to a bank is stored in a customer table while all the bank's products are stored in a product table. Each customer can have many products and each product can be assigned to many customers.
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