The Entity Relationship Diagram.

The Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) depicts a conceptual data model that incorporates some of the important scientific information about the real world. It adopts a natural view that the real world consists of entities and relations (Chen, 1976). One objective of the ERD is to create a simple, easy to understand and conveniently presented data model consisting of entities, attributes, relationships and cardinalities. The model serves as tool for database design, where the model can facilitate …

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