Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Blog Entry 4.4

Explain your ERD using the following terms : entity, attributes, attribute types, record, data types, database tables, and relationships



     My Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) shown above shows how the Pharmacy is broken up.  Each entity has its own set of attributes.  Attributes are individual pieces of information about an entity.  The type of attribute in the database is known as the data type.  A collection of attributes in an ERD are known as records.  All of these are located on a database table.  This is where the collection of related data is stored in order to facilitate searches. 

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