Questions tagged [erd]
Entity Relationship Diagram
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How to count the number of relationships to a table in MySQL?
I am arranging an ERD diagram of an existing database with about a 100 tables, to add some structure to the process, how rank out the number of relations the tables have to each other?
For example, ...
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Create an ERD diagram from a set of SQL CREATE TABLE statements
We have a Snowflake database that does not maintain relationships between tables. The lack of relationships is not my decision and I have no control over this. I would like to generate an ERD diagram ...
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Is it ok to have repeated values in some of the columns and similar columns in two separate tables?
I'm trying to create database in which I could store thousands of job postings. I put here 3 sample records of these job postings so that you could better understand how everything looks like:
Every ...
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ERD Review for Chipotle Order System
Attached is the ERD for my attempt at creating an ERD of Chipotles order system. I've been trying to learn how to make good ERD for database design and wanted to get some feedback.
I'm confused on ...
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Link category table to product table or create json category field in product table
When it comes to product and categories, is it a better design to model as below
or is it better to include a json category field in the product table thus eliminating the need for the category and ...
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May a weak entity have relation to another weak entity which is already related with a strong entity?
Imagine there is a weak entity B which depends on a strong entity A, and another weak entity C that depends on the weak entity B.
How would we select the PK s for the entity C in such a case ?
To be ...
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One-to-One? or One-to-Zero-or-One?
Scenario: I am being asked to create an HR training tracker for employees of a business. in this database I am using two tables:
EMPLOYEE(EMPLID, LastName, FirstName, PrimaryEmail) with EMPLID as the ...
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Table for an Appointment App
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I am building out an appointment scheduler application. I am seeking advice on how best to tackle this issue.
I am building out my ERD and I am the point where I will be creating a ...
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Can an ER relationship have `NULL`able attributes?
Texts out there about the entity-relationship model seem to only mention NULLable attributes on entity types and not relationships. Is there a concrete saying whether such attributes are allowed to ...
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If an entity's primary key must contain a foreign key, does that make the entity weak?
I'm currently learning about strong and weak entity types in the context of RDBMS. While reading, I came across this statement:
"A weak entity is dependent on a strong entity to ensure its ...
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My relational schema and a few questions about relations and duplicate values in columns
I'm trying to create database in which I could store thousands of job postings. I put here 5 sample records of these job postings so that you could better understand how everything looks like:
Now, ...
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Help Creating a 'Complex' ERD
I am stuck on how to represent the relationships I need correctly. I have a
Produce table. Each type of produce—e.g., 'lettuce'—has one or more quantity suffixes that can be associated with it, e.g., '...
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ERD Design for mangers and their respective locations
I am tasked with replacing the company spreadsheet containing all our sites and which belong to the three upper managers in their respective hierarchy to a relational database. This is a relatively ...
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How to implement disjoint (nonoverlapping) subtype with total completeness in MongoDB?
I designed an entity relationship diagram (ERD) with the goal of creating two child entities (INSTITUTION and SPACECRAFT) of a parent entity (LOCATION), which is distinguished depending on the value ...
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Can a foreign key be a primary key?
I want to know the relationship takes, teaches, advisors tables underlined attributes are foreign key or primary key? or both?
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Can I illustrate how a relationship depends on another in an ER diagram?
I'm new to data modelling and trying to build my first ER diagram for supermarket management. My current diagram is based on the following description which I myself come up with:
"Suppliers ...
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Design proper schema for flexible entity field
I have some entities modeled like on the picture.
Every entity have field classifications which contains list of Classification.
Classification itself can have any name and value, all represented as ...
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Likes table with different types
I have an oversimplified database design where I wish to put all likes in the same table (only if it makes sense) .
A like, can be on either on a POST or on a COMMENT.
Options:
Distinguish the two ...
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There are 2 ERD Designs, and one has a strange combination. I am told both are correct. why?
One of the designs seems clear: A REQUESTEDPRODUCT is picked from STOCK (which has many locations). The primary key is a composite key of 4 foreign keys.
The other design is more unclear. The "...
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Foreign key location
This is a question from a Master's degree.
What is the correct response to the question depicted in the image, and why?
Or do you believe there could be multiple correct answers?
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Chen notation to crow's foot
How do I illustrate relationships which has an attribute in chen notation to crows foot notation?
Example:
There is an attribute "quantity" in the relation. How do I draw that in crow's ...
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Is there a command line tool to convert a SQL DDL file describing tables and relationships into a diagram?
Is there a command line tool that takes one or more SQL DLL files describing entities and relationships, and then transforms it into an ER diagram or something textual that can be turned into an ER ...
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Is this ER Module correct
I am working on my first ER diagram for a case study. I wonder whether it is correct. I will include my case study here. It is really helpful if anyone can give me a feedback regarding my diagram.
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Need help creating a transaction-grained fact table
For a personal project I need to design for the first time in my life a (star schema to keep it simple) relational database, the context is the sport of boxing.
Specifically, I need help designing a ...
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Is this ER diagram correct?
I am working on my first ER diagram, for a clothing brand case study. I was wondering if my work is correct. Any feedback is more than welcome. My most important concern is the key relationships ...
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Please review my ERD and SQL tables
it is about a carPooling app where any user can propose a trajectory that is divided into chuncks. Another user can construct his trip from available chuncks.
A user is identified by his mail. He can ...
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ERD relationships rental_car
So I'm having difficulties with making an erd for a project about renting cars. I think I'm almost done, I only have to make the relationship between 3 tables ,2 of them had many to many relationship ...
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Fashion Show ERD
working on a class project.
Have to make a ERD for a fashion show.
Not looking for a super in depth ERD, but one that will give a good grade.
I'd like it to be able to
Have a 'Clock-In/Clock-Out ...
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Is my database ERD well designed
I'm creating a PostgreSQL database for datasets, which should store historical and future data of weather forecasts and train timetables. I'm wondering if my ERD is good enough for a database which ...
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What is the correct usage of IN and ORDER BY keywords when used in conjunction with subqueries?
ERD for my simple db design:
I want to order children based on their parent's last name. I am trying to use the following query:
SELECT *
FROM children
WHERE parent_id IN (SELECT parent_id
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Database Design for non-profit family assistance
I have a very basic ERD created for a simple database that stores some information about refuge families being helped out by a non-profit that helps provides some basic needs.
ID is the primary key ...
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How do I adjust the table link endpoint in PgAdmin's ERD tool after autogenerating it from an existing database?
I can move the lines themselves around, but I can't move the endpoints, which cause the lines to overlap. The only way to understand which relationship is being referenced is by hovering over the ...
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How should one design a logical data model for a social platform, or skip it?
After studying from 'Usage-Driven Database Design: From Logical Data Modeling Through Physical Schema Definition'a book by George Tillmann.
I want to create a logical model for a my own social ...
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Entity relation with itself
I want to make an ER diagram for scientific research papers, one of the constraints is that a paper shouldn't cite itself.
I'm not very sure how to achieve this, as this question points out, the ER ...
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How to design a complex multi approval expense db schema in MySQL
I'm very beginner in database design and had the following problem to solve.
DB schema design for an expense approval system with these cases
approval system, every company has 1 or many teams where ...
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When should I use associative entity?
I am studying DBMS and I have read that associative entity is used when there is a many to many relationships but I am confused with the graph. It has many to many relationships but did not use an ...
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E-R diagram 1-to-1 mandatory relationship for two superclass entities to relational schema
How are two superclass entities that are connected to a mandatory 1-to-1 relationship converted to relational schemas? These two superclass entities are also abstract, meaning that they will not have ...
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Convert generalization in ERD to Relationnal Database having no additional column
I've a quite simple problem but the litterature I came accross didn't seem to dwell on.
Let's say I have an entity OFFER which represents an Offer on a Product, for each product, one offer can be &...
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ERD - How to add an attribute to one side of the recursive relation?
The simplified scenario for the ERD
A company has employees (each has unique id emp_id)
Each employee is supervised by another employee
A supervising employee has a special attribute SID
Here is my ...
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Primary keys due to inheritance
I am trying to design a database for postgrad office and we have a parent class "User" that has a username as a primary key for authentication and we have corresponding subclasses "...
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Foreign key or copy of attributes in log entities
I am trying to design an ER for a system with the following specifications:
Each user has an account
The user can link his/her bank accounts to his/her account in our system
The user can deposit or ...
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ERD to Star Schema
I have a simple ERD diagram as represented below for a supplier for inventory goods.
What would be the best way to turn this ERD into a Star Schema with one Fact Table and a few dimension tables?
To ...
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Need guidance in creating an EERD
Hope I'm posting this at the right place. I have an assignment that I've been mulling over in an attempt to understand it completely.
Instructions
You are to create an EER diagram from the information ...
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Entity-relationship for database design
Customers have the option to not provide a review or leave as many reviews as they want, but they cant have multiple reviews for the same product. How do I model this?
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ERD related, can you make one to one relationship with a single attribute entity to another entity?
ERD Here
So for my database project, I designed a meat supply chain optimization project for a large organization, for example such as walmart, where every part of the chain is owned by the ...
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How to re-design my relational model if there will be NULLs in one column?
I'm trying to build database which allow me store job postings from scraped websites and now I'm in phase of creating a relational model. Getting straight to the point I want to know how should I re-...
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Do I need to implement id column to table if i know that every added row will be unique? [duplicate]
I want to create database which allow me to store IT job offers from various websites. While creating ER diagram I started wondering if I really need an id column in one particular table. Look at this ...
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ERD for yearly budget ceiling advice
I'm working on webdev that involving yearly budget ceiling, but I can't wrap my head around to design such budget ceiling (my first project involving budgeting). So I need some advice.
So the scenario ...
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ER-Model to relational mapping
"Fundamentals of Database Systems" by Ramez Elmasri covers this topic extensively, I've gone through it and seemingly the rules mentioned aim at converting the ER-Model to a relational ...
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Can a foreign key be used for two primary keys?
I'm still a beginner in sql and I have to transform this relation between clients and addresses and vendors and adresses. This uses 2 primary keys(1 for the vendors and 1 for the clients). My question ...