Application Design.pptVIP

Application Design Development (67-272) Dr. Kevin Stolarick Entity-Relationship (E-R) Modeling Why Entities Attributes Relationships “The Rules” Examples Why Do E-R Modeling? Early process Much cheaper to fix - cost of changes Understandability Data is critical – needs to be correct Complexity Stability Conversion to database Entities person, place, thing, event, concept have attributes sufficient to distinguish them NOUNS Examples: employee, department, division, project, skill, location Entity Set a collection of entities with identical attributes not attribute values Entities can be we