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Database Design and ER Diagrams
M.R. Sterling
Database Intro · Sheet 01

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How a design becomes a database: crow's foot diagrams, entities and keys, one to one, one to many and many to many, and must or may. Each rule is shown with SQLite enforcing it.

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Reading a crow's foot diagram
Diagram words
An entity becomes a table
One to many, many to many
One to one
Keys
Must or may
Attributes and entities
Six marks of good data
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