Entity Relationship Diagram

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Entity Relationship Diagram

An entity relationship diagram, also called entity relationship
model, is a graphical representation of entities and their relationships
to each other, typically used in computing in regard to the organization
of data within databases or information systems.

An entity relationship diagram is a specialized graphic that illustrates

the relationships between entities in a database. Also Known As: ER
Diagram, E-R Diagram, ERD.

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ER Diagram software is an excellent communications tool, which can
be used to confirm business requirements and provide direction to the
architecture and design team as they move forward with physical
database design rapidly.
Edraw Max is ideal for building entity relationship diagrams, Chen ERD,
Express-G diagram, ORM diagram, Martin ERD, database model
diagram. It's affordable and easy to illustrate the entity relationship
diagrams by simply drag and drop. Then add a connector among the
entity relationship shapes, style and color that you want, An additional
arrow style can be attached to the connector to illustrate the
relationship between the different entities.

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Symbols of Entity Relationship Diagram

Edraw Max supports five types of entity relationship diagram. The
different entity relationship diagram is using the different symbols to
represent the relationships between entities in a database for most
information management projects. But ER diagrams often use boxes to
represent entities. Diamonds are normally used to represent
relationships and ovals are used to represent attributes.
Entity Relationship Symbols
Entities Symbol: Entity instance-person, place, object, event, concept
Relationships Symbol: Relationship instance-link between entities

Symbols of Chen ERD

The follow symbols of entity relationship diagram is based on the Chen
ERD. Chen ERD uses rectangles to represent entities, and diamonds to
represent relationships appropriate for first-class objects. If an entity
set participates in a relationship set, they are connected with a line.
Attributes are drawn as ovals and are connected with a line to exactly
one entity or relationship set.

Symbols of Martin ERD

The follow Martin ERD symbols is based on the symbols used in the
Martin notation to draw object-oriented analysis and design diagrams.

Symbols of ORM Diagram

Object Role Modeling is commonly used to describes the database of a
model for information and rules analysis, ontological analysis, and data
modeling in the field of software engineering: what objects may exist,
what object classes they belong to, and what relationships exist
between objects.

What is a quick way to create an entity relationship

diagram
Start to Draw a Entity Relationship Diagram
The steps involved in creating an entity relationship diagram are:
Identify the entities.
Determine all significant interactions.
Analyze the nature of the interactions.
Draw the entity relationship diagram.
When you create an entity relationship diagram one of the first things
that you consider is the entities about which you wish to record
information. For example, in a family database you probably wish to
record information about member, house, job, love, contact, etc.

However, in a relational database you record not only details about the
entities but also the relationship between these entities. For example,
in the family members are assigned to house and every member is
appointed to be in charge of each love and job.
Entities are the "things" about which you wish to record information in
a database. There are relationships between entities which fall into
three types: one-one, one-many, many-many. Any many-many
relationship must be resolved into two one-many relationships.
Single Entity Relationship

Binary Entity Relationship

Examples of Entity Relationship Diagram

An entity relationship diagram example, showing a simple database for
the business order process.

The entity relationship diagram shown in the image above contains six
entities - supplier, customer, order, item, product and shipment. There
are five relationship such as supplied by, requested on, used in,
included on and sent by. In our example, every entity includes some
attributes associated with each entity. In a real-world example, each
one of these would likely have many different attributes.