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Modeling a database for a printing company

This part in Item doesn't look right: F.K = JID, OID JID REFERENCES PURCHASE (JID) OID REFERENCES PURCHASE (OID) I suppose the design is only on paper, as no DBMS would allow that, when the pri …
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Implementation of a many-to-many relationship with total participation constraints in SQL

It's not easy to do in SQL but it is not impossible. If you want this enforced through DDL alone, the DBMS has to have implemented DEFERRABLE constraints. This could be done (and can be checked to wor …
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how do I model this in database?

City ---- CityID CityName PRIMARY KEY (CityID) Hotel ----- HotelID HotelName CityID PRIMARY KEY (HotelID) FOREIGN KEY (CityID) REFERENCES City (CityID) Package ------- PackageID PackageName CityID …
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EER Diagram - subclasses which are neither disjoint nor fully overlapping

Assumptions: A service can be of either type A or B. Not both. A request can be for either a service of type A or for two services (one of type A and one of type B). A client can have many requests. …
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What is the cardinality of entity relationship between Employee and Department?

What is the cardinality of (this) entity relationship between Employee and Department? Yes, this relationship ("managed-by") is an example of a one-to-one relationship. This doesn't forbid the tw …
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Ternary Relationship or (n-ary)

Yes, there is a difference. In the 1st design, an author-paper combination is related to one editor. So a paper can have many editors, as many as its authors. In the 2nd design, a paper is related t …
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Modeling Subclass (or Subtype) Constraints in an Entity-Relationship Diagram

I think you can make an Orders entity that is a relationship between Products and Customers. The Orders would have subclasses FoodOrders and ShoeOrders, which respectively would be the relationships b …
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