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ER Diagram To Relational Model

This document discusses how to represent an entity-relationship schema as tables in a relational database. It describes how strong entity sets, composite attributes, multi-valued attributes, relationship sets, and generalizations are represented as tables with columns.

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ER Diagram To Relational Model

This document discusses how to represent an entity-relationship schema as tables in a relational database. It describes how strong entity sets, composite attributes, multi-valued attributes, relationship sets, and generalizations are represented as tables with columns.

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Reduction of E-R Schema to Tables

 Tabular representation of a Strong Entity Set. A Strong Entity Set E will be


represented by a Table named “E”. The Table will have columns as follows:-

(i) Simple, Single-valued Attributes There will be a column for each simple,
single-valued attribute of Entity Set E.

(ii)Composite Attributes There will be a column for each sub-part of a


Composite Attribute; no column needs to be assigned for composite attribute as
such. For example for NAME comprising of First Name (FN), Middle Name
( MN) and Last Name (LN) there will be three columns for FN, MN and LN. No
column needs to be assigned for NAME. If NAME needs to be produced, it can
be done by combining the sub-parts.
Reduction of E-R Schema to Tables

(iii) Derived Attributes No column needs to be assigned for the


derived attributes; since the values of these attributes are not stored in database.

(iv) Multi-Valued Attribute Each Multi-Valued Attribute (say M)


will be represented by a separate Table (say named E-M) which will have a
column each for the primary key attributes of E and a column for Attribute M.
Each value of the multi-valued attribute will be represented in a separate row in
this table.
Reduction of E-R Schema to Tables
Reduction of E-R Schema to Tables

Tabular representation of Relationship Sets. Let R be a Relation


Set and let a1, a2,…..am be the set of attributes formed by the union of the
primary keys of all the Entity Sets participating in Relation R and let the
descriptive attributes of R (if any) be b1,b2,…..bn. Then the Relation R
will be represented by a Table named say “R”, which will (m+n)
columns, each column representing one of the attributes from the set {a 1,
a2,……am} U {b1,b2,….bn}.
Reduction of E-R Schema to Tables
Reduction of E-R Schema to Tables
Reduction of E-R Schema to Tables
Reduction of E-R Schema to Tables
 For example, in the above case there will five tables i.e. ACCOUNT, SAVINGS-
ACCOUNT, CURRENT-ACCOUNT, FD and RD. The table ACCOUNT will have
columns Account-Number and Balance; and table SAVINGS-ACCOUNT will have
columns Account-Number and Interest Rate; and table CURRENT-RATE will have
columns Account-Number and Over-Draft. Same is applicable to the tables FD and RD.

 Combining of Tables in Generalization If a generalization is “Total”, which


implies that each entity in the super-class (higher-level entity set) is a member of at least
one sub-class (lower-level entity set), no table is required to be created for the higher-level
entity set. Instead a table needs to be created for each lower-level entity set; and each such
table will also include all the attributes of higher-level entity set, in addition to its own
distinct attributes. For example, the table SAVINGS-ACCOUNT will also have columns
Account-Number, Balance and Interest-Rate; and the table CURRENT-ACCOUNT will
also have the columns Account-Number, Balance and Over-Draft. The same is applicable
for FD and RD tables.

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