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2023 Fa Assign 1

The document describes an assignment to create an entity-relationship (ER) schema for a community theater. It provides details about the theater's people, committees, productions, props, concession stand, and donors. It instructs the student to include an ER diagram with attributes and constraints, lists of entity attributes and relationship attributes, and assumptions. The student is asked to design an ER model that concisely represents the theater's operations and tracks of people, productions, props, and finances.

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2023 Fa Assign 1

The document describes an assignment to create an entity-relationship (ER) schema for a community theater. It provides details about the theater's people, committees, productions, props, concession stand, and donors. It instructs the student to include an ER diagram with attributes and constraints, lists of entity attributes and relationship attributes, and assumptions. The student is asked to design an ER model that concisely represents the theater's operations and tracks of people, productions, props, and finances.

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CSCI 511 Assignment (ERM)

Create an ER Schema for the following scenario. The schema must include:

• The ER diagram itself, complete with attributes and cardinality constraints.


• An entity attribute list briefly describing, when necessary, the attributes for each entity.
Try to have at least 5 attributes per entity, although this will not be reasonable for
some entities.
• A list of relationship attributes and their descriptions. (NOTE: NOT all relationships
will have attributes.)
• A list of assumptions you have made in order to make the diagram.

A community theater needs a system to keep track of its people and productions.

Draw an ER model that most accurately and concisely represents the following scenario

1. The theater employs a small number of people on a part time basis to take care of some
professional functions. Most of the people associated with the theater are volunteers.
2. The theater is organized into several committees which deal with everything from
overseeing a particular production to planning the long term administration of the
theater. The theater wishes to keep track of who has served on different committees
in the past, as well as the current composition of the committees.
3. The committees of the theater form a hierarchy.
4. The theater gives productions. The productions have names and performance dates.
Each performance has a certain number of tickets allocated for it and several different
pricing options. The number of tickets actually sold should also be tracked for each
performance of the production.
5. Some productions are based on scripts rented from publishing companies. Other pro-
ductions are developed by the theater itself. The rental cost of each production should
be recorded as appropriate.
6. Each production has people who participate in the production in various roles. Each
production has at least one director. Many other people perform onstage. Some people
work behind the scenes. People audition for various roles in a production. These should
be tracked until after a production is cast.
7. The script roles performed by an actor in a particular production should be recorded.
The off-stage roles (not listed in the scripts) filled by a person should also be recorded.
Different actors may perform the same role during different performances of the produc-
tion. Each participant in a production (but especially the on-stage performers) should
have a brief biographical statement to be included in the playbill for the production.
8. Depending on the circumstances (if someone is sick), different people may perform a
given role on differing dates during the production.
9. Some popular productions are performed on a recurring basis. (For example, “A Christ-
mas Carol” is performed every year.)

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10. The theater has an extensive collection of props that should be tracked. In addition,
the theater wants to keep a record of which props are used in which productions. Props
from one production can be destroyed to create props for another production.
11. The theater also runs a concession stand during productions. The theater wants to
keep track of the sales of items at the concession stand as well as the stock on hand of
various items. The people working at the concession stand should be tracked as well.
12. The theater also keeps track of contributors that provide money or other resources to
the theater. Amounts and dates of donations must be maintained for tax purposes.
13. The theater produces a newsletter and maintains a mailing list of people who receive
the newsletter. Recipients can receive the newsletter in either printed or electronic
form.

Hints: If you blindly take the above sentences and turn nouns into entities, verbs into
relationships, and adjectives into attributes, you will likely do very poorly. Think about the
data and how it interacts.

Try different alternatives. Some things will work better than others.

Not everything in the requirements above should end up in ER diagram. Think about how
the resulting system will be used. The database (and hence its conceptual model) should
have enough to support all the desired functionality given above, but no more.

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