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ER Diagram Exercise

This document outlines the requirements for three different databases: 1) A manufacturing database to track suppliers, parts, colors, and quantities supplied. 2) A bioinformatics application to track patients, tags, genes, and research articles analyzing genes. 3) A prescriptions database for a pharmacy chain to track patients, doctors, drugs, prescriptions, pharmacies, contracts, and prices.

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ER Diagram Exercise

This document outlines the requirements for three different databases: 1) A manufacturing database to track suppliers, parts, colors, and quantities supplied. 2) A bioinformatics application to track patients, tags, genes, and research articles analyzing genes. 3) A prescriptions database for a pharmacy chain to track patients, doctors, drugs, prescriptions, pharmacies, contracts, and prices.

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ER Diagram Exercise

1. Manufacturing Industry
Each supplier has a unique name.
More than one supplier can be located in the same city.
Each part has a unique part number.
Each part has a color.
A supplier can supply more than one part.
A part can be supplied by more than one supplier.
A supplier can supply a fixed quantity of each part.
2. A Bioinformatics Application
• Patient: has a unique MSP number, a Patient name, a Date of Birth, a
Tissue Type and an indicator denoting whether the tissue is cancerous or
normal.
• A patient library associates a patient with multiple tags
• Each tag has a unique tag number and a unique nucleotide sequence.
• For each tag in the patient library, a count is given to record the number of
times the tag occurs in the library. In general, the same tag can be associated
with any number of patients.
• A tag may be mapped to a gene. Each gene has a unique gene name and a
type.
• In general, multiple tags may be mapped to the same gene. However, two
different genes cannot be mapped to the same tag.
• Finally, an article is identified by a unique article number and a journal
name. An article may analyze multiple genes and a gene may be analyzed by
multiple articles.
3. The Prescriptions-R-X chain of pharmacies has offered to give you and
your two neighbors a free lifetime supply of medicine if you design its
database. Given the rising cost of health care, you agree. Here are the
requirements.
• Patients are identified by an SSN, and their names, addresses, and ages
must be recorded.
• Doctors are identified by an SSN. For each doctor, the name, specialty, and
years of experience must be recorded.
• Each pharmaceutical company is identified by name and has a phone
number.
• For each drug, the trade name and formula must be recorded. Each drug is
sold by a given pharmaceutical company, and the trade name identifies a
drug uniquely from among the products of that company. If a
pharmaceutical company is deleted, you need not keep track of its products
any longer.
• Each pharmacy has a name, address, and phone number.
• Every patient has a primary physician. Every doctor has at least one
patient.
• Each pharmacy sells several drugs and has a price for each. A drug could
be sold at several pharmacies, and the price could vary from one pharmacy
to another.
• Doctors prescribe drugs for patients. A doctor could prescribe one or more
drugs for several patients, and a patient could obtain prescriptions from
several doctors. Each prescription has a date and a quantity associated with
it. You can assume that, if a doctor prescribes the same drug for the same
patient more than once, only the last such prescription needs to be stored.
• Pharmaceutical companies have long-term contracts with pharmacies. A
pharmaceutical company can contract with several pharmacies, and a
pharmacy can contract with several pharmaceutical companies. For each
contract, you have to store a start date, an end date, and the text of the
contract.
• Pharmacies appoint a supervisor for each contract. There must always be a
supervisor for each contract, but the contract supervisor can change over the
lifetime of the contract.

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