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Week2 Tutorial

Data Models

1. What is a business rule, and what is its purpose in data modelling?


2. What is a relationship, and what three types of relationships exist?
3. Give an example of each of three types of relationships.
4. Consider the scenario described by the statement: “A customer can make many payments, but
each payment is made by only one customer”. Model this statement using a crow’s foot
modelling technique.

5. Consider the below figure 1 as your guide, complete following exercises. The Tiny
College relational diagram shows the initial entities and attributes for Tiny College.

Fig 1: The Tiny College relational diagram

A. Identify each relationship type and write all the business rules.

B. Using Draw.io (or another application such as Lucid Chart, check with your
lecturer/tutor) create a basic Crow’s Foot ERD for Tiny College.

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6. Describe the relationship and identify the business rules depicted in the ERD diagram
shown in Fig 2.

Fig:2

7. Create a Crow’s foot ERD for following descriptions

a. An airliner can be assigned to fly many flights, but each flight is flown by only
one airliner
b. Each of the MegaCo Corporation’s divisions is composed of many
departments. Each of those departments has many employees assigned to it,
but each employee works for only one department. Each department is
managed by one employee, and each of those managers can manage only
one department at a time.

8. Create a Crow’s Foot ERD to include the following business rules for the ProdCo
company:
a. Each sales representative writes many invoices.
b. Each invoice is written by one sale representative.
c. Each sales representative is assigned to one department.
d. Each department has many sales representative.
e. Each customer can generate many invoices.
f. Each invoice is generated by many customers.

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