DB Group Assignment (5 members) deadline 08/12/2014

Draw ER diagram and Mapp into relational model (identify entities, attributes and
relation)

1. Country Bus Company

A Country bus Company owns a number of buses. Each bus is allocated to a particular route,
although some routes may have several buses. Each route passes through a number of towns.
One or more drivers are allocated to each stage of a route, which corresponds to a journey
through some or all of the towns on a route. Some of the towns have a garage where buses are
kept and each of the buses are identified by the registration number and can carry different
numbers of passengers, since the vehicles vary in size and can be single or double-decked. Each
route is identified by a route number and information is available on the average number of
passengers carried per day for each route. Drivers have an employee number, name, address, and
sometimes a telephone number.

2. A Crop farm Example

Rohuhama’s family owns and operates a 640 acre farm for several generations. Since the farm
business is growing, Rohuhama is thinking to build a database that would make easier the
management of the activities in the farm. He is considering the following requirements for the
database:

1. For each livestock classification group (for example, cow, horse etc.), Rohuhama keeps
track of the following: identification number, classification, total number of livestock per
classification group (for example, number of cows, number of horses etc.).
2. For each crop the following information is recorded Crop identification number and
classification.
3. Rohuhama has recorded the yield of each crop classification group during the last ten years.
The records consist of the year, yield, sales, price of the crop and the amount of money
earned.
4. Rohuhama has recorded the yield of each livestock classification group during the last ten
years. The records consist of the following historical data: the year, (historical) selling price
per head, number of livestock in the end of the year, number of livestock sold during one-
year period, and the total amount of money earned.

3. Airline Example

Major airlines companies that provide passenger services in Ethiopian are: UniAir, TransAsia
Airways, Far Eastern Transport, Great China Airlines etc. Ethiopian’s Federal Aviation
Administration (EFAA) keeps a database with lots of information on all airlines. This
information is made accessible to all airlines in Ethiopian with the intention of helping the
Companies assess their Competitive position in the domestic market. The information kept
consists of:

1. Each airpline has an identification number, name of the contact person and telephone
number.
2. For each aircraft identification number, capacity and model is recorded.
3. Each employee has an employee identification number, name, address, birthday, sex,
position with the company and qualification.
4. Each route has a route identification number, origin, destination, classification (into
domestic or international route), distance of the route and price charged per passenger.
5. Each airline keeps information about their buy/sell transactions (for example, selling an
airplane ticket is a sell transaction, paying for maintenance is a buy transaction). Each
transaction has a transaction identification number, date, description and amount of money
paid/received.

4. Automobile Distribution Center

Bishoftu Automobile distribution centers provide automotive parts to authorized dealers and the
dealers distribute the parts to Customers throughout Ethiopia. Bishoftu is faced with pressure to
provide excellent Customer Service at minimum Cost. Maintaining a well-organized database
information, will contribute to achieving this goal.

Bishoftu keeps the following information about each of its distribution centers: identification
number, location (X longitude coordinate and Y latitude coordinate), address (city, state, zip
code) and name of the Contact person. The following information is kept about each dealer:
identification number, dealer’s location (X longitude Coordinate and Y latitude Coordinate),
address (name of the city, State, zip Code), name of the Contact person and the identification
number of the primary distribution centers serve this dealer.

A distribution center sends a shipment to its dealers every week. The distribution centers keep
the following information about each shipment the date, an identification number of the product
shipped, an identification number of the dealer that receives the shipment.

The following information is kept about each product: a product identification number name,
price, weight, value.

Bishoftu keeps the following information about the flow and cost data for all distribution centers
to dealer channels: distribution center identification number, dealer identification number, and
product identification number, the number of miles between each distribution center and its
dealers using the road network, the quantity of products being shipped and the dollar value of the
shipment.
 5. Housing Society Example

The University Housing Office receives many applications from graduate and married students
requesting an apartment on campus. The housing villages are sited in five different locations and
each village has about 500 apartments. Each apartment falls into one of the apartment categories.
An apartment category is determined based on village location, whether the apartment has dish
washer or not, a single or double bedroom, central or window unit air conditioner, furniture or
not.

Housing office keeps the following information about the Current residents: the SSN of the
family head, name, address, telephone number, marital status, the name of the major college and
department in which the family head is enrolled in.

Housing office keeps the following information about the students that have applied for in
campus housing, but have not been assigned to an apartment yet: SSN of the applicant, name,
address, telephone number, marital status, the name of the major college and department in
which the family head is enrolled in, the preference about the apartment category.