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Entity Relationship Diagram

An entity relationship model describes data as entities, attributes, and relationships. An ER diagram provides a graphical representation of how entities such as people, objects, or concepts relate to each other. It shows the relationships among entity sets. There are different types of attributes, relationships, and participations that are important elements in an ER diagram. An ER diagram is essential for database design as it specifies the data to be stored, including the entities and their attributes, and allows users and developers to understand and preview the database structure before implementation.

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Entity Relationship Diagram

An entity relationship model describes data as entities, attributes, and relationships. An ER diagram provides a graphical representation of how entities such as people, objects, or concepts relate to each other. It shows the relationships among entity sets. There are different types of attributes, relationships, and participations that are important elements in an ER diagram. An ER diagram is essential for database design as it specifies the data to be stored, including the entities and their attributes, and allows users and developers to understand and preview the database structure before implementation.

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An entity relationship model describes data as entities, attributes, and relationships with the

help of a diagram known as Entity Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram). It provides a visual
starting point for database design that can be implemented later. The main components of ER
model are entities and relationships. So, an ER diagram shows the relationship among entity
sets.
An ER diagram is a graphical representation of relationships among people, objects, places,
concepts, or events with their respective characteristics developed in an information technology
(IT) system. An entity is a thing in the real world with an independent existence or an object or
a thing that can be identified easily and an attribute is a property that describes the entity. So,
an entity relationship (ER) diagram is a type of flowchart that illustrates how "entities" such as
people, objects, or concepts relate to each other within a system.
There are many types of attributes that can be used in this diagram. Some examples of
attributes are the simple ones, those that cannot be further divided or the composite ones that
can be divided into further parts. These 2 mentioned above are the most used but we have the
single valued, multi valued, derived, stored and complex attributes. Knowing all types of
attributes makes it easier for us to make an entity-relationship diagram.
A relationship is represented by diamond shape in ER diagram. It shows the relationship among
entities. There are four types of relationships: one to one when a single entity is associated with
a single entity, one to many when an entity is associated with more than one entity, many to
one when more than one entity is associated with a single entity and many to many when more
than one entity is associated with more than one entity. Identifying relationships makes it easier
for us to make the database.
In an entity relationship diagram exists a total and partial participation of an entity set. Total
participation represents that each entity in entity set must have at least one relationship in a
relationship set and it is also called mandatory participation; and partial participation represents
that each entity in the entity set may or may not participate in the relationship instance in that
relationship set and it is also called as optional participation. The participations of entity sets
are very important in the process of making a diagram.
So, we conclude that an entity relationship diagram is essential for modeling the data stored in a
database and that it is the basic design upon which a database is built because specifies what
data we will store: the entities and their attributes. In fact, the database analyst gains a better
understanding of the data to be contained in the database through the step of constructing the
entity relationship diagram. Finally, this diagram is widely used to describe the conceptual
design of databases and it helps both users and database developers to preview the structure of
the database before implementing the database.

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