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    The document discusses the components of an entity relationship (ER) diagram including entities, attributes, and relationships. It provides examples of how different types of entities, attributes, and relationships are visually represented in an ER diagram, such as using rectangles for entities, ellipses for attributes, and rhombus/diamonds for relationships. Key topics covered include binary, recursive, and ternary relationships as well as one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships.

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    The document discusses the components of an entity relationship (ER) diagram including entities, attributes, and relationships. It provides examples of how different types of entities, attributes, and relationships are visually represented in an ER diagram, such as using rectangles for entities, ellipses for attributes, and rhombus/diamonds for relationships. Key topics covered include binary, recursive, and ternary relationships as well as one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships.

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    The document discusses the components of an entity relationship (ER) diagram including entities, attributes, and relationships. It provides examples of how different types of entities, attributes, and relationships are visually represented in an ER diagram, such as using rectangles for entities, ellipses for attributes, and rhombus/diamonds for relationships. Key topics covered include binary, recursive, and ternary relationships as well as one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships.

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    ER Diagram is a visual representation of data that describes how data is related to each other.

    In ER Model, we disintegrate data into entities, attributes and setup relationships between
    entities, all this can be represented visually using the ER diagram.

    For example, in the below diagram, anyone can see and understand what the diagram wants
    to convey: Developer develops a website, whereas a Visitor visits a website.

    Components of ER Diagram
    Entitiy, Attributes, Relationships etc form the components of ER Diagram and there are
    defined symbols and shapes to represent each one of them.

    Let's see how we can represent these in our ER Diagram.

    Entity

    Simple rectangular box represents an Entity.

    Relationships between Entities - Weak and Strong

    Rhombus is used to setup relationships between two or more entities.

    Attributes for any Entity

    Ellipse is used to represent attributes of any entity. It is connected to the entity.

    Weak Entity

    A weak Entity is represented using double rectangular boxes. It is generally connected to


    another entity.
    Key Attribute for any Entity

    To represent a Key attribute, the attribute name inside the Ellipse is underlined.

    Derived Attribute for any Entity

    Derived attributes are those which are derived based on other attributes, for example, age can
    be derived from date of birth.

    To represent a derived attribute, another dotted ellipse is created inside the main ellipse.

    Multivalued Attribute for any Entity

    Double Ellipse, one inside another, represents the attribute which can have multiple values.

    Composite Attribute for any Entity

    A composite attribute is the attribute, which also has attributes.

    ER Diagram: Entity

    An Entity can be any object, place, person or class. In ER Diagram, an entity is represented
    using rectangles. Consider an example of an Organisation- Employee, Manager, Department,
    Product and many more can be taken as entities in an Organisation.
    The yellow rhombus in between represents a relationship.

    ER Diagram: Weak Entity

    Weak entity is an entity that depends on another entity. Weak entity doesn't have anay key
    attribute of its own. Double rectangle is used to represent a weak entity.

    ER Diagram: Attribute

    An Attribute describes a property or characterstic of an entity. For example, Name, Age,


    Address etc can be attributes of a Student. An attribute is represented using eclipse.

    ER Diagram: Key Attribute

    Key attribute represents the main characterstic of an Entity. It is used to represent a Primary
    key. Ellipse with the text underlined, represents Key Attribute.

    ER Diagram: Composite Attribute

    An attribute can also have their own attributes. These attributes are known as Composite
    attributes.

    ER Diagram: Relationship
    A Relationship describes relation between entities. Relationship is represented using
    diamonds or rhombus.

    There are three types of relationship that exist between Entities.

    1. Binary Relationship
    2. Recursive Relationship
    3. Ternary Relationship

    ER Diagram: Binary Relationship

    Binary Relationship means relation between two Entities. This is further divided into three
    types.

    One to One Relationship

    This type of relationship is rarely seen in real world.

    The above example describes that one student can enroll only for one course and a course
    will also have only one Student. This is not what you will usually see in real-world
    relationships.

    One to Many Relationship

    The below example showcases this relationship, which means that 1 student can opt for many
    courses, but a course can only have 1 student. Sounds weird! This is how it is.

    Many to One Relationship

    It reflects business rule that many entities can be associated with just one entity. For example,
    Student enrolls for only one Course but a Course can have many Students.
    Many to Many Relationship

    The above diagram represents that one student can enroll for more than one courses. And a
    course can have more than 1 student enrolled in it.

    ER Diagram: Recursive Relationship

    When an Entity is related with itself it is known as Recursive Relationship.

    ER Diagram: Ternary Relationship

    Relationship of degree three is called Ternary relationship.

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