DFC 20203 DATABASE DESIGN

LAB ACTIVITY 2: Relational Data Model – PART 1

Duration: 4 hours

Learning Outcomes
This activity encompasses activities 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D.
By the end of this tutorial session, you should be able to:
1. Understand components of a database table: record(tuple), attribute(field),
domain, degree and cardinality
2. Understand characteristic of relation scheme:
a. Relation name
b. Attribute name
c. Domains
3. Describe a relation instance

SCENARIO

Infinity Design Solution Sdn. Bhd, an advertising company wants to automate the system
of managing Human Resources (HR) data. Miss Suria was selected to be an IT
programmer for Infinity Design Solution. En. Mohamed insist to develop a system to
manage staff payroll. Miss Suria needs to prepare preliminary research about the
components of a database table, relation scheme, relation instance, relations key and
integrity rules.

INSTRUCTION:
Answer the entire questions below.

Activity 2A
Activity Outcome: Understand components of a database table:
record (tuple), attribute (field), domain, degree and cardinality.

Match the components of a database table below with its appropriate description.

Attribute Tuple Domain Degree Cardinality

Degree •Total number of attributes of one relation

Domain •One set values for one or more attributes

•One row in one relation

Tuple •Also known as record in MS Access table

Cardinality •Total number of tuples of one relation

Attribute •One column in one relation

•Also known as field in MS Access table

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Activity 2B
Activity Outcome: Understand components of a database table:
record (tuple), attribute (field), domain, degree and cardinality

Consider the database below that consists of four relations, namely CUSTOMER_T,
PRODUCT_T, ORDER_T and ORDER_PRODUCT_T. Answer the following questions:

CUSTOMER_T
Customer_No Customer_Name Customer_Address
1234 DIYA NATASHA DIYA ENT. KUCHING SARAWAK
2345 FILA AZIRA FILARA SDN. BHD, MIRI SARAWAK
3456 RINA WAFIZA RIZA ENT. SIBU SARAWAK
4567 HARITH FAZLY HARITH SDN. BHD, MIRI SARAWAK
5678 JERRY STANLEY JERRY ENT. MUKAH SARAWAK

PRODUCT_T
Product_No Product_Description Product_Unit_Price
A123 PENCIL 0.30
B234 ERASER 0.20
C345 SHARPENER 0.50
D456 RULER 0.80
E567 PEN 1.00

ORDER_T
Order_No Order_Date Customer_No
1111 2014-02-01 1234
1122 2014-02-05 3456
1133 2014-02-21 5678
1144 2014-03-30 2345
1155 2014-04-01 4567

ORDER_PRODUCT_T
Order_No Product_No Quantity
1111 B234 100
1122 C345 150
1133 E567 120
1144 D456 150
1155 A123 200
1122 A123 150
1144 C345 120

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1. List all the attributes for each tables.

CUSTOMER_T PRODUCT_T ORDER_T ORDER_PRODUCT_T

Customer_No Product_No Order_No Order_No

Customer_Name Product_Description Order_Date Product_No
Customer_Address Product_Unit_Price Customer_No Quantity

2. Identify degree and cardinality for relation STUDENT.

Degree Cardinality

CUSTOMER_T 3 5

PRODUCT_T 3 5

ORDER_T 5
3

ORDER_PRODUCT_T 3 7

Activity 2C
Activity Outcome: Understand characteristic of relation scheme:
relation name, attribute name and domain.

1. Label the following components of a database table.

Relation Attribute

Domain

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2. Write syntax and relation scheme for relation STUDENT.

Relation Name (attribute-1, attribute-2,.....attribute-n)

Syntax

STUDENT (Name, SSN, Home_phone,address,office phone,age,gpa)

Relation
Scheme

3. Based on ORDER_STATIONERY database in Activity 2B, write the relation schema for
each tables.

CUSTOMER_T CUSTOMER_T (Customer_No, Customer_Name, Customer_Address)

PRODUCT_T PRODUCT_T (Product_No, Product_Description ,Product_Unit_Price)

ORDER_T ORDER_T (Order_No,Order_Date,Customer_No)

ORDER_PRODUCT_T ORDER_PRODUCT_T (Order_No,Product_No,Quantity)

Activity 2D
Activity Outcome : Describe a relation instance

Briefly explain your own words the definition below.

This is like the blueprint for a database table. It defines the structure of the
table, including the table's name, the names and types of its columns, and
Relation any constraints (like keys or unique requirements).
Scheme

This is the actual data in the table at a specific moment. It represents

the current set of rows (or records) that conform to the relation
Relation scheme's structure.
Instance

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