Entity Modeling: The Foundation For Accurate And Reliable Database Design
Entity models represent real-world entities with components like entities (objects), attributes (properties), and relationships (associations). Weak entities depend on stronger ones for identification. Attributes can be composite (multiple values), multivalued (sets of values), or derived (calculated). Relationships define cardinality (number of occurrences) and determine dependency between entities. Related concepts include identifying relationships, composite, multivalued, and …
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