The (min,max) notation
(0,1) (1,1)
(1,1)
(1,N)
SUMMARY OF ER-DIAGRAM NOTATION FOR ER SCHEMAS
Symbol Meaning ENTITY TYPE WEAK ENTITY TYPE RELATIONSHIP TYPE IDENTIFYING RELATIONSHIP TYPE ATTRIBUTE KEY ATTRIBUTE MULTIVALUED ATTRIBUTE COMPOSITE ATTRIBUTE DERIVED ATTRIBUTE
E1 E1
R R R
E2
N
(min,max)
TOTAL PARTICIPATION OF E2 IN R CARDINALITY RATIO 1:N FOR E1:E2 IN R STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINT (min, max) ON PARTICIPATION OF E IN R
E2 E
ER DIAGRAM Entity Types are:
EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT, PROJECT, DEPENDENT
COMPANY ER Schema Diagram using (min, max) notation
Designing an ER Diagram
Consider the following set of requirements for a University database. Design an ER diagram for this application:
The university keeps track of each student's name, student number, social security number, current address and phone number, permanent address and phone number, birthdate, sex, class (freshman, graduate), major department, minor department (if any), degree program (B.A., B.S., ... Ph.D.). Some user applications need to refer to the city, state, and zip code of the student's permanent address and to the student's last name. Both social security number and student number are unique for each student. All students will have at least a major department. Each department is described by a name, department code, office number, office phone, and college. Both the name and code have unique values for each department. Each course has a course name, description, course number, number of credits, level and offering department. The course number is unique for each course. Each section has an instructor, semester, year, course, and section number. The section number distinguishes sections of the same course that are taught during the same semester/year; its value is an integer (1, 2, 3, ... up to the number of sections taught during each semester). A grade report must be generated for each student that lists the section, letter grade, and numeric grade (0,1,2,3, or 4) for each student and calculates his or her average GPA.
University ER Diagram
Degree Name Birth date Sex StudentID SSN Major In DName DCode OfficeNumber OfficePhone College
Student
Minor In
Department
Class
Address City State Zip
Offer
CName Grade_Report Letter Grade GPA Credits Numeric Grade Instructor Year CourseDesc
Course
CNumber
Section
Belong_To
SectionNumber
Semester
ER DIAGRAM FOR A BANK DATABASE
The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc. 1994, Elmasri/Navathe, Fundamentals of Database Systems, Second Edition
FIGURE 3.17 An ER diagram for an AIRLINE database schema.
