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    ER Diagramming Conventions

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    ER Diagramming Conventions

    What Will I Learn?


    Objective
    In this lesson, you will learn to:
    Construct ER diagram components that represent
    entities and attributes according to diagramming
    conventions

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    ER Diagramming Conventions

    Why Learn It?


    Purpose
    People speak different
    languages throughout the
    world, but some signs are
    understood globally.
    Guess the meaning of these
    signs.

    International Signs

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    ER Diagramming Conventions

    Why Learn It?


    Sign Review
    How well did you do?

    International Signs

    Did you guess the


    meaning of most
    signs?

    Key:

    1.
    Crosswind
    4. Lane for slow vehicles 6. Low clearance
    2.
    Roundabout
    5. Stop in Brazil
    7. Mr. Yuk
    3.
    No entry for vehicles carrying more than a certain quantity of
    explosives or readily inflammable substances

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    ER Diagramming Conventions

    Tell Me / Show Me
    Shared Convention
    It is efficient to communicate
    information in a way that can be
    easily understood by many
    people.

    ER diagramming is like that -you may say or write things


    differently because of the way
    you speak, your accent, and so
    on, but everyone draws
    diagrams according to the
    same conventions.

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    A Shared
    Convention

    ER Diagramming Conventions

    Tell Me / Show Me
    DJs on Demand: Clients, Events,
    and Types
    "Our client list is growing. We have a
    lot of repeat business -- customers
    who like what weve done who ask
    us to work for them again. We have
    some very busy customers who can
    have more than one event going on
    at the same time. Each partner has
    some specialty or expertise -- so
    when its appropriate, we like to
    classify our events by theme to help
    us assign the right person (partner)
    to the job. An event theme can be a
    beach party, medieval, carnival, retro
    sixties or seventies, etc. We keep
    adding event themes as we go."

    CLIENT
    # number
    # first name
    # last name
    o phone
    number

    EVENT
    # id
    * name
    * date
    o description
    o cost

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    THEME
    # code
    * description

    ER Diagramming Conventions

    Tell Me / Show Me
    ER Drawing Conventions
    Entities are represented by
    softboxes.
    Entity names go in the
    softboxes.
    Entity names are always
    singular and written with all
    capital letters.

    CLIENT

    EVENT

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    THEME

    ER Diagramming Conventions

    Tell Me / Show Me
    Drawing Conventions
    Attributes are listed under the
    entity names.
    Mandatory attributes are
    marked with an asterisk: *
    Optional attributes are marked
    with a circle: o
    Unique identifiers are marked
    with a hash sign: #

    CLIENT
    # number
    * first name
    * last name
    * phone number
    o email address

    EVENT
    # id
    * name
    * date
    * cost
    * description

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    THEME
    # code
    * description

    ER Diagramming Conventions

    Tell Me / Show Me
    Drawing Conventions
    (continued)
    Relationships are lines that
    connect entities.
    These lines are either solid or
    dashed.
    These lines terminate in a
    single toe
    or a crows foot at the end of
    each entity.
    You will learn more about the
    meaning of relationship lines in
    the next lesson.

    CLIENT
    # number
    * first name
    * last name
    * phone number
    o email address

    Single Toe
    Crows Foot

    EVENT
    # id
    * name
    * date
    * cost
    * description

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    THEME
    # code
    * description

    ER Diagramming Conventions

    Tell Me / Show Me
    Terminology
    Key terms used in this lesson include:
    Softbox

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    ER Diagramming Conventions

    Summary
    Objective Summarized
    In this lesson, you have learned how to:
    Construct ER diagram components that represent
    entities and attributes according to diagramming
    conventions

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    ER Diagramming Conventions

    Summary
    Practice Guide
    The link for the lesson practice guide can be found in the
    course resources in Section 0.

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