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Chapter 2

The document contains exercises related to creating entity-relationship diagrams for various applications, including industrial factories, educational institutions, and healthcare systems. Each exercise outlines specific requirements for entities, attributes, and relationships that need to be represented in the diagrams. The exercises aim to enhance understanding of the entity-relationship model in different contexts.

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Chapter 2

The document contains exercises related to creating entity-relationship diagrams for various applications, including industrial factories, educational institutions, and healthcare systems. Each exercise outlines specific requirements for entities, attributes, and relationships that need to be represented in the diagrams. The exercises aim to enhance understanding of the entity-relationship model in different contexts.

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Chapter 2.

Entity-Relationship Model

Exercise 1
Describe the entity relationship diagrams given in the following figures.

Exercise 2
Draw an entity relationship diagram for the following application in an industrial factory:
• There can be many suppliers
• Each supplier has a unique name
• Each supplier can supply many parts to the factory. Each part can be supplied by many
suppliers
• Each part has a unique part number
• Each part has a color
• A supplier can only supply a fixed quantity of each part

Exercise 3
Consider the Teach relationship between Teachers and Subjects. For each of the following
situations, draw an entity relationship diagram
• Each teacher teaches only one Subject
• Each teacher must teach several Subjects
• Each teacher teaches only one Subject, and every subject must be taught by several
teachers
• Teachers can teach the same Subject in many semesters, and need to keep records of all
teaching semesters
• Teachers can teach the same Subject in many semesters, but only need to keep records of
the current semester
• A Subject can be taught by a group of Teachers
Additional attributes, entities, and relationships may be used as needed

Source: Bài giảng Nguyễn Kim Anh. http://cnx.org/contents/a86b84d0-cd65-49ac-9adc-


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Exercise 4
Define an entity relationship diagram for a university management database, which stores
information about Departments, Institutes, Lecturers, Students, Subjects, Classes, Buildings,
Rooms, and Scores. The model should store the following information:
• For each Institute: Name, Address, Institute Head, list of Staff
• For each Department: Name, Affiliated Institute, Department Head
• For each Lecturer: Name, Date of Birth, Position, Lecturer Code, Institute, Office Room,
List of Subjects, List of Classes
• For each Student: Name, Date of Birth, Student Code, list of Subjects studied, scores for
subjects studied
• For each Subject: Subject Code, Subject Name, Semester, list of Lecturers, list of
Students, list of Classes
• For each Class: Class Type (Theory, Practice, Self-Study), Start/End Date, Class Time,
Lecturer, list of Students, Location
• For each Building: Name, Corresponding Map
• For each Room: Name, Capacity, Room Type (Office, Lecture Hall, Laboratory, Practice
Room), Building Name.
Assumption: Lecturers teach the subjects they have registered for. They can teach different
classes of the same subject. And each class is taught by only one Lecturer.

Exercise 5
Define an entity relationship diagram to describe the following database:
• Patients are identified by an SSN. The patient's name, address, and age need to be
recorded.
• Doctors are identified by an SSN. For each doctor, the name, specialty, and years of
experience need to be recorded.
• Each Pharmacy has a name, an address, and a phone number. Each Pharmacy has a
manager.
• Pharmacists are identified by an SSN. Pharmacist can only work in one pharmacy. For
each pharmacist, the name and qualifications need to be recorded.
• For each type of drug, the name, manufacturer, and dosage need to be recorded.
• Each pharmacy can sell many types of drugs, each with its own price. A drug can be sold
at many pharmacies, and the price varies between pharmacies.
• Doctors prescribe drugs to patients. A patient can receive many prescriptions from many
doctors. A prescription can contain one or more medications. Each prescription has a date,
and the corresponding medication type and quantity.

Source: Bài giảng Nguyễn Kim Anh. http://cnx.org/contents/a86b84d0-cd65-49ac-9adc-


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