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Relationship Databases

An entity relationship diagram models the relationships between database tables, with primary keys uniquely identifying records and foreign keys linking tables. This diagram shows a doctor table primary keyed to a patient table in a one-to-many relationship, with an appointments table joining them through foreign keys to represent a doctor seeing multiple patients but each patient only having one doctor.

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Relationship Databases

An entity relationship diagram models the relationships between database tables, with primary keys uniquely identifying records and foreign keys linking tables. This diagram shows a doctor table primary keyed to a patient table in a one-to-many relationship, with an appointments table joining them through foreign keys to represent a doctor seeing multiple patients but each patient only having one doctor.

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Entity Relationship Diagram

Usman Ali

An entity relationship diagram represents the relationship between the tables in a database. The diagram represents which
field is the primary key, in this case the doctor and patients table is a one to many relationship as a doctor can see many
patients but a patient can only have one doctor.

This database structure will be set up as a relational database which means there is more than one table and they
are connected together by links called relationships.

All tables have a primary key which makes a particular field distinctive and allows every record in the table to be
recognised.

A foreign key is used to combine tables together and produce a relationship with a primary key in a different table.

In this scenario, the primary keys are appointment ID, Patients ID and Doctors ID. The foreign keys are Doctor ID in
the appointments and patients table.

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