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The document discusses Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) and their components. It defines ERDs as diagrams that illustrate the logical structure of databases. It describes the basic elements of ERDs including entities, attributes, relationships, cardinality, and weak entities. It also provides a brief history of ERDs and notes they were developed by Peter Chen in 1976 and later refined by others.

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The document discusses Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) and their components. It defines ERDs as diagrams that illustrate the logical structure of databases. It describes the basic elements of ERDs including entities, attributes, relationships, cardinality, and weak entities. It also provides a brief history of ERDs and notes they were developed by Peter Chen in 1976 and later refined by others.

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ERD Diagram Submitted To: Mostafa Khalid Course Instructor BBA Program IBAIS University Submitted By: Kazi Tariqul Islam ID: 0101093042 Batch No: 30th

Date of Submission: 21-05-2012

What are Entity Relationship Diagrams?

Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) illustrate the logical structure of databases.

An ER Diagram Entity Relationship Diagram Notations Peter Chen developed ERDs in 1976. Since then Charles Bachman and James Martin have added some sligh refinements to the basic ERD principles. Entity An entity is an object or concept about which you want to store information.

Weak Entity A weak entity is an entity that must defined by a foreign key relationship with another entity as it cannot be uniquely identified by its own attributes alone.

Key attribute A key attribute is the unique, distinguishing characteristic of the entity. For example, an employee's social security number might be the employee's key attribute.

Multivalued attribute A multivalued attribute can have more than one value. For example, an employee entity can have multiple skill values.

Derived attribute A derived attribute is based on another attribute. For example, an employee's monthly salary is based on the employee's annual salary.

Relationships Relationships illustrate how two entities share information in the database structure. Learn how to draw relationships: First, connect the two entities, then drop the relationship notation on the line.

Cardinality Cardinality specifies how many instances of an entity relate to one instance of another entity.

Ordinality is also closely linked to cardinality. While cardinality specifies the occurences of a relationship, ordinality describes the relationship as either mandatory or optional. In other words, cardinality specifies the maximum number of relationships and ordinality specifies the absolute minimum number of relationships.

Recursive relationship In some cases, entities can be self-linked. For example, employees can supervise other employees.

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