2.

0 Objectives
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Basic Design
2.3 ER Model
2.3.1 Entity Sets
2.3.2 Relationship Sets
2.3.3 Attributes
2.4 Keys
2.5 Relationship Classification
2.5.1 One-One Relationship
2.5.2 One-Many Relationship
2.5.3 Many-One Relationship
2.5.4 Many-Many Relationship
2.5.5 Recursive Relationship
2.5.6 Ternary Relationship
2.5.7 n-ary relationship
2.6 Entity Types
2.6.1Regular Entity Type
2.6.2 Weak Entity Type
2.7Reducing ERD to Tables
2.8 Building Blocks of ERD
2.8.1Relationships
2.8.1.1 Degree of Relationship
2.8.1.2 Cardinality
2.9 Generalization
2.10 Specialization
2.11 Enhanced ERD
2.11.1 Features
2.11.2 Super Class
2.11.3 Sub Class
2.11.4 Specialization
2.11.5 Generalization
2.11.6 Category or Union
2.11.7 Inheritance
 2.11.8 ISA Relationship
2.12 Constraints
2.12.1 Specialization
2.12.2 Disjointness
2.12.3 Completeness
2.13 Entity Clusters
2.14 Advantages of ER Modelling
List of Figures

Fig 2.1 Entity sets Worker and Manager

Fig 2.2 Manage relationship set
Fig 2.3 ERD Notations and Symbols
Fig2.4 One-One Correspondence
Fig 2.5 One-One relationship
Fig 2.6 One - Many Correspondence
Fig 2.7 One Many Relationship
Fig 2.8 Many One Correspondence
Fig 2.9 Many One Relationship
Fig 2.10 Many Many Correspondence
Fig 2.11 Many Many relationship
Fig 2.12 Recursive relationship between course and course id
Fig 2.13 Recursive relationship between employee and manager
Fig 2.14 Ternary relationship between Book Class Teacher entities
Fig 2.15 Ternary relationship between Medicine Doctor and Patient entities
Fig 2.16 N-ary relationship between more entities
Fig2.17 Employee entity set
Fig2.18 Weak Entity as Manager
Fig2.19 Weak Entity between Worker and Section
Fig 2.20 ERD of a supplier to a company
Fig 2.21 Aggregation
Fig 2.22 Aggregation of student Course
Fig 2.23 Employee Entity set
Fig 2.24 Generalization of Employee entity set
Fig 2.25 Entity set employee with sublevels
Fig 2.26 ERD of Entity sets Student, Course, Lecturer, and Subject
Fig 2.27 Entity Sets Student, Course, Lecturer, Subject Tables
Fig 2.28 Tables Student, Course, Lecturer and Subject
Fig 2.29 Student Table with Primary and Foreign Key
Fig 2.30 Course Table
Fig 2.31 Lecturer Table
Fig 2.32 Student Hobby Table
Fig 2.33 Address Table
Fig 2.34 Composite attributes of Address table
Fig 2.35 Shape Super Class and Sub Class denoted by d
Fig 2.36 Shape Super Class and Sub Class bottom up approach
Fig 2.37 Super Class of entity set Person and employee
Fig 2.38 Subclasses Secretary, Engineer and Technician
Fig 2.39 Specialization
Fig 2.40 Specialization set of sub classes
Fig 2.41 Specialization of employee with sub classes
Fig 2.42 Entity types car and truck
Fig 2.43 Generalization of entity types car and truck into vehicle
Fig 2.44 Vehicle Registration
Fig 2.45 Subset of super classes
Fig 2.46 IS A relation
Fig 2.47 Multiple Inheritance
Fig 2.48 IS A relationship between Entity Person, Employee, and Student
Fig 2.49 EER Diagram for attributes of Specialization
Fig 2.50 EER Notations for non-disjoint specialization
Fig 2.51 Completeness constraint with total specialization rule