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Lab Activity 5 : Entity Relationship Diagram

Learning Outcomes
This activity encompasses activities 5A, 5B , 5C, 5D and 5E

At the end of this activity session, you should be able to:

Activity 5A

Activity Outcome: Identify the basic elements of ERD and design the ERD based on a given
scenario by using Chen’s Model.

Nena Electrical Co. Wishes to create a database with the following entities and attributes:
a. Customer, with attributes: CustomerID, Name, Email, Telephone
b. Location, with attributes: LocationID, Address, Type
c. Rate, with attributes: , RateID, RateClass, Rateperkwh

After the interviews with the owner you have come up with the following business rules:
● Customer can have one or more locations
● Each location can have one and only one customer
● Each location can have one or more rates
● Each rate may be used at many locations, or not used at a location

1. Identify all the basic elements of ERD that are involved based on the above scenario:
a) Entity and Attribute

Entity Attribute

b) Relationship, Connectivity and Cardinality

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c) Identifier keys

Entity Primary Key

2. Draw the E-R Diagram using Chen’s Model based on the Activity 5A(1) that you have
identified.

Activity 5B

Activity Outcome: Identify the basic elements of ERD and design the ERD based on a given
scenario by using Crow’s Foot.

An automobile insurance company needs to keep track of information about vehicle. The
company has to store information of customer, car and accident. Customer information is
LicenseNo, name and address. Customers can own one or more cars, where the car
information is PlateNo, model and year. A car not involved or involved in many accidents. If the
car is involved in an accident, the information that will be stored is Report_number, location and
date.

1. Identify all the basic elements of ERD that are involved based on the above scenario:

a) Entity and Attribute

Entity Attribute

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a) Relationship, Connectivity and Cardinality

b) Identifier keys

2. Draw the E-R Diagram using Chen’s Model based on the Activity 5B(1) that you have
identified.

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Activity 5C
Activity Outcome: Convert a given ERD into relational tables.

1. Convert the E-R Diagram based on the Activity 5A(2) into the relational tables.

Customer

Location

Rate

Use

2. Convert the E-R Diagram based on the Activity 5B(2) into the relational tables.

Customer

Car

Car_Accident

Accident

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Activity 5D
Activity outcome : Using Chen Model Notation, Draw the ERD for the given scenario below.

There are many soccer teams in Liga Super Malaysia ; each team has an ID,name,main
stadium, and which city this team belongs.Each team has many players,and each player
belongs to one team.Each player has a number,name,DOB,start year and shirt number that he
uses.Teams play matches, for each match you need to keep track the date on which the game
is played, match ID and the final result of the match.Each match has exactly three referees.For
each referee have an referee ID,name,DOB and year of experience.
(10 Marks)

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Activity 5E
Activity outcome : Using Crow’s Foot Model Notation, Draw the ERD for the given scenario
below.

Seremban Hospital has several wards. This hospital has a few types of ward depends on types
of patients. Patient information will be recorded into file that patient number, patient name,
address, phone number, IC number, patient and group of blood patient. Each patient is treated
by a doctor at one time but one doctor can treats a number of patients. The information of
doctors recorded are : doctor ID, doctor name, address, phone no, IC no and expertise. The
nurses will be assigned to take care of the patients. Nurses in this hospital are graded based on
their experience, qualification and duration of working in the hospital.

(10 Marks)

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