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The document discusses developing ER diagrams and translating them to SQL statements. It describes a scenario of a DVD rental business and tasks to create tables for movies, videos, rentals, memberships and prices with attributes, ER diagram, data types and SQL statements.

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HI5033-Tutorial 6

The document discusses developing ER diagrams and translating them to SQL statements. It describes a scenario of a DVD rental business and tasks to create tables for movies, videos, rentals, memberships and prices with attributes, ER diagram, data types and SQL statements.

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HI5033 Database Systems - Tutorial 6

In this tutorial we will get some further experience in developing ER diagrams, and then translate
these to SQL DDL Statements.

Consider the following brief scenario

EliteVideo is a startup company providing concierge DVD kiosk service in upscale


neighbourhoods. EliteVideo can own several copies (VIDEO) of each movie (MOVIE). For
example, a kiosk may have 10 copies of the movie Twist in the Wind. In the database, Twist in the
Wind would be one MOVIE, and each copy would be a VIDEO. A rental transaction (RENTAL)
involves one or more videos being rented to a member (MEMBERSHIP). A video can be rented
many times over its lifetime; therefore, there is an M:N relationship between RENTAL and VIDEO.
(DETAILRENTAL) is the bridge table to resolve this relationship. The pricing structure is such that
there are a number of price categories, such as 'Overnight', '2 Day Rental', '3 Day Rental', 'Weekly'
etc. The cost of renting each MOVIE will fall into one of these (PRICE) categories.

Task 1

List the attributes you would expect to find in each of the tables mentioned above

Task 2

Create an ER Diagram for the above Database tables

Task 3

Review the PostgreSQL Data types from the PostgreSQL Data Tupe documentation. This
can be found online at

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/datatype.html

Determine a datatype for each of the attribute fields identified in Task 1

Task 4

Review the PostgreSQL documentation on Table Basics, Default Values and Constraints.
This can be located online at

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https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/ddl.html

Once you do this write the SQL DDL Statements to create the above tables we identified in
Task 1 and refined in Task 2 above. Making sure to identify all the primary and foreign keys.

Task 5

In PostgreSQL and DBeaver, create the new database (call it MovieDB, prefixed by your
Student ID number), as we did in the first tutorial, and create a new DBeaver connection to
this new database.

Create the new tables in the database by running the SQL DDL statements you created in
Task 4 as scripts in the new database. You will need to fix any errors in the SQL statements
as they appear.

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