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ER Diagram

This document provides information on entity relationship (E-R) diagrams and modeling. It discusses top-down and bottom-up approaches to database design. It defines entities, attributes, relationships, and keys. It describes one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many relationships. It also explains weak entities, derived attributes, degrees of relationships, and the steps to create an E-R diagram using appropriate notations. Finally, it provides an example E-R diagram for a university database.

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ER Diagram

This document provides information on entity relationship (E-R) diagrams and modeling. It discusses top-down and bottom-up approaches to database design. It defines entities, attributes, relationships, and keys. It describes one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many relationships. It also explains weak entities, derived attributes, degrees of relationships, and the steps to create an E-R diagram using appropriate notations. Finally, it provides an example E-R diagram for a university database.

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ENTITY RELATIONSHIP(E-R) DIAGRAM

BADRI NARAYAN. B
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Database Design Techniques


Top down Approach
Top down starts by defining the data sets and then define the data elements within those sets. As a result of this method, you generally end up with redundant information in one or more tables. Some references call this Entity - Relationship modeling. Bottom Up approach Bottom up starts by defining the required attributes and then grouping them to form the entities. Another term used for this method is normalization from functional dependencies.

ER modeling
ER modeling: A graphical technique for understanding and organizing

the data independent of the actual database implementation.


Entity: Any thing that may have an independent existence and about

which we intend to collect data. Also known as Entity type. E.g.: Student
Relationships: Associations between entities. E.g.: Student belongs to

a CBS

Attributes: Properties/characteristics that describe entities.eg:

Student Name, Batch Name, DOB, Address, etc.

Attributes
The set of possible values for an attribute is called the domain of the

attribute Example: The domain of attribute marital status is having four values: single, married, divorced or widowed.
The domain of the attribute month is having twelve values ranging

from January to December.


Key attribute: The attribute (or combination of attributes) that is

unique for every entity instance E.g.: the account number of an account, the employee id of an employee etc.
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Attribute Type
Types of Attributes
Simple attribute

Definition
Cannot be divided into simpler components Can be split into components

Example

Composite attribute
Single valued Multi-valued Stored Attribute

Gender of the employee Date of joining of the employee Can take on only a single value for Age of the employee each entity instance Can take up many values Attribute that need to be stored permanently Attribute that can be calculated based on other attributes.
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Skill set of the employee Date of joining of the employee Years of service of the employee

Derived Attribute

Entity Types
Regular Entity: Entity that has its own key attribute (s).

E.g.: Employee, student ,customer, policy holder etc.


Weak entity: Entity that depends on other entity for its existence and doesnt have

key attribute (s) of its own

E.g. : Dependent of employee

name

E#

Strong entity

Id ----

Weak entity

Employee

has

dependent

Degree of a Relationship
Degree: The number of entity types involved

One Two Three

Unary Binary Ternary

E.g.: employee manager-of employee is unary employee works-for department is binary customer purchase item, shop keeper is a ternary relationship

Unary Relationship
Employee Manages

Ternary Relationship
Medicine

Doctor

Prescription

Patient

Cardinality
Relationships can have different connectivity
one-to-one one-to-many many-to- One many-to-many

(1:1) (1:N) (M:1) (M:N)

E.g.: Employee head-of department (1:1) Lecturer offers course (1:N) assuming a course is taught by a single lecturer Student enrolls course (M:N)

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ER Modeling -Notations
An Entity is an object or concept about which business user wants to store information. A weak Entity is dependent on another Entity to exist. Example Order Item depends upon Order Number for its existence. Without Order Number it is impossible to identify Order Item uniquely.

Attributes are the properties or characteristics of an Entity


A key attribute is the unique, distinguishing characteristic of the Entity A multi-valued attribute can have more than one value. For example, an employee Entity can have multiple skill values.

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ER Modeling Notations(Contd..)
A derived attribute is based on another attribute. For example, an employee's monthly salary is based on the employee's basic salary and House rent allowance.

Relationships illustrate how two entities share information in the database structure.

To connect a weak Entity with others, you should use a weak relationship notation.

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Steps in ER Modeling
Identify the Entities
Find relationships

Identify the key attributes for every Entity


Identify other relevant attributes

Draw complete E-R diagram with all attributes including

Primary Key

Review your results with your Business users


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ER Model for the University Database

Department Name

Location

Department

Pre Requisite

1 Offers

1 Headed by

1 Has

Course# N N Duration Course Is taught by 1 Instructor 1 N

Course Name

Instructor Name Telephone#

Room#

Enrolled by

Student Date of Birth

Student#

Student Name

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