UNIT-1 (CHAPTER-2 ENTITY RELATIONSHIP MODEL)
SKYSPIN UNIT-1 (CHAPTER-2 ENTITY RELATIONSHIP MODEL) ER Model - Basic Concepts The ER model defines the conceptual view of a database. It works around real-world entities and the associations among them. At view level, the ER model is considered a good option for designing databases. Entity An entity can be a real-world object, either animate or inanimate, that can be easily identifiable. For example, in a school database, students, teachers, classes, and courses offered can be considered as entities. All these entities have some attributes or properties that give them their identity. An entity set is a collection of similar types of entities. An entity set may contain entities with attribute sharing similar values. For example, a Students set may contain all the students of a school; likewise a Teachers set may contain all the teachers of a school from all faculties. Entity sets need not be disjoint. Attributes Entities are represented by means of their pr
