COMP231 Tutorial 1

ER Model and ER to Relational Schema

Wenwei Xue (Wayne) wwxue@cse.ust.hk

E-R Diagram
Rectangles entity sets Ellipses attributes Diamonds relationship sets Double ellipses multivalued attributes Dashed ellipses derived attributes Double lines total participation Double rectangles weak entity sets Double diamonds identifying relationship sets

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Exercise 1.1 Construct E-R Diagram

A university registrars office maintains data about the following

entities:
courses, including number, title, credits, syllabus, and prerequisites; course offerings, including course number, year, semester, section number, instructor(s), timings, and classroom; students, including student-id, name, and program; instructors, including identification number, name, department, and title.
Further, the enrollment of students in courses and grades awarded to

students in each course they are enrolled must be appropriately modeled.

Construct an E-R diagram for the registrars office.

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Entities

student

courseoffering

instructor

course

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Course
courses including number, title, credits, syllabus,

and prerequisites
Attribute? Relationship?
courseno require s
prerequisite maincourse

credits

course
syllabus title

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Course Offering
course offerings, including course number, year,

semester, section number, instructor(s), timings, and classroom

semester courseno time

course

is_offere d

courseoffering

room

year

secno

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Weak Entity
A weak entity can only be identified uniquely by

combining the primary key of another (owner) entity and the partial key of itself.
Owner entity set and weak entity set must participate

in one-to-many relationship (one owner entity, many weak entities).

Weak entity set must have total participation in this

identifying relationship set.

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Student, Instructor
students, including student-id, name, and program instructors, including identification number, name,

department, and title

sid name iid name

student

instructor

program

dept

title

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Enrollment
Further, the enrollment of students in courses and

grades awarded to students in each course they are enrolled must be appropriately modeled.

student

enrolls

courseoffering

grade

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Anymore??
Instructor teaches course..

courseoffering

teache s

instructor

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E-R Diagram for a University

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Exercise 1.2 Covert E-R Diagram into Tables

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Entities (Not Weak)

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Entities (Not Weak)

course (courseno, title, syllabus, credits) student (sid, name, program) instructor (iid, name, dept, title)

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Weak Entities

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Weak Entities
course-offering (courseno, secno, year, semester,

time, room)

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Relationships (Not defining weak entities)

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Relationships (Not defining weak entities)

enrolls (sid, courseno, secno, semester, year, grade) teaches (courseno, secno, semester, year, iid) requires (maincourse, prerequisite)

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Relationships with Weak Entities

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Relationships with Weak Entities

There is no extra table for the relationship between a

weak entity and its strong entity.

The relationship is already present in the schema for

the weak entity. course-offering (courseno, secno, year, semester, time, room)

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Relational Schemas for a University

course (courseno, title, syllabus, credits) student (sid, name, program) instructor (iid, name, dept, title) course-offering (courseno, secno, year, semester,

time, room)
enrolls (sid, courseno, secno, semester, year, grade) teaches (courseno, secno, semester, year, iid) requires (maincourse, prerequisite)

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