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  2. Associative entity - Wikipedia

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    An associative entity is a term used in relational and entity–relationship theory. A relational database requires the implementation of a base relation (or base table) to resolve many-to-many relationships. A base relation representing this kind of entity is called, informally, an associative table. An associative entity (using Chen notation)

  3. Enhanced entity–relationship model - Wikipedia

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    The MySQL Workbench offers creating, editing and exporting EER Models. Exporting to PNG and PDF allows easy sharing for presentations. Skipper allows users to create, import and export from object–relational mapping (ORM) schema definitions to editable EER models. SAP PowerDesigner [3] is a complex tool for modelling and transforming ...

  4. Entity–relationship model - Wikipedia

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    An entity–relationship model (or ER model) describes interrelated things of interest in a specific domain of knowledge. A basic ER model is composed of entity types (which classify the things of interest) and specifies relationships that can exist between entities (instances of those entity types).

  5. Comparison of database administration tools - Wikipedia

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    Visual schema/E-R design: the ability to draw entity-relationship diagrams for the database. If missing, the following two features will also be missing; Reverse engineering - the ability to produce an ER diagram from a database, complete with foreign key relationships

  6. Barker's notation - Wikipedia

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    Barker's notation refers to the ERD notation developed by Richard Barker, Ian Palmer, Harry Ellis et al. whilst working at the British consulting firm CACI around 1981. The notation was adopted by Barker when he joined Oracle and is effectively defined in his book Entity Relationship Modelling as part of the CASE Method series of books.

  7. Database schema - Wikipedia

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    In the context of Oracle Databases, a schema object is a logical data storage structure. [4]An Oracle database associates a separate schema with each database user. [5] A schema comprises a collection of schema objects.

  8. One-to-many (data model) - Wikipedia

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    One-to-many often refer to a primary key to foreign key relationship between two tables, where the record in the first table can relate to multiple records in the second table. A foreign key is one side of the relationship that shows a row or multiple rows, with one of those rows being the primary key already listed on the first table.

  9. Primary key - Wikipedia

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    In the relational model of databases, a primary key is a designated attribute that can reliably identify and distinguish between each individual record in a table.The database creator can choose an existing unique attribute or combination of attributes from the table (a natural key) to act as its primary key, or create a new attribute containing a unique ID that exists solely for this purpose ...