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Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) : Terminologies

The document defines key terms used in entity relationship diagrams (ERDs): Entities are anything about which data is stored, such as students, teachers, or bank accounts. Attributes are features of entities like names and identification numbers. Entities with the same attributes form entity classes, while a single occurrence is an entity instance. Relationships represent logical associations between entity instances from different classes, such as students registering for courses or teachers teaching subjects.

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Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) : Terminologies

The document defines key terms used in entity relationship diagrams (ERDs): Entities are anything about which data is stored, such as students, teachers, or bank accounts. Attributes are features of entities like names and identification numbers. Entities with the same attributes form entity classes, while a single occurrence is an entity instance. Relationships represent logical associations between entity instances from different classes, such as students registering for courses or teachers teaching subjects.

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Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)

Terminologies

Entity
Anything about which we want to keep data is known as an entity.
For Example;
- Student, teacher, course
- A/C holder, A/C, withdrawal info

Attributes
Features or characteristics of an entity that is of interest for an organization is known as an
attributes.
For example;
- (reg #, Name, Class)
- (Teacher ID, Teacher name, Teacher Field)
- (Course Code, Course Title, Credit Hours)
- (A/C Title, Full Name, Address)
- (A/C No, A/C Title, Balance)
- (A/C no, Date/ Time, Amount Withdrawal)

Entity Classes
Entities having the same attributes form or belong to an entity class.
For example;
- ‘Building’ is an entity class whereas ‘Saudi Pak Tower’ is an entity.
- Entity is an individual
- ‘Mess Member’ is an entity class and ‘Hamid, Ahmad’ etc are the entities
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Entity Instance
A single occurrence of an entity class is known as entity instance or a record or row or tuple.

Attributes
Student (Entity Class)

Roll no Name Class

1589 Ali BSCS

1599 Ahmad BSCS

1555 Umair BSCS

Entities
Entity instance
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Relationship
It is the logical association between instances of different entity classes.

Roll no Name Class

1589 Ali BSCS

1599 Ahmad BSCS

1555 Umair BSCS


Registe
Course code Course Title Credit Hours
rs
CS-241 DBMS 3

CS-141 OS 3

Teacher Name Subject Teaches

Sir Imran Saeed DBMS

Sir OS
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