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(324: Review I for Database Management) (by Liping Liu) Concepts:
Databases
DBMS
Logical Data Models
Hierarchical Models
Network Models
Relational Models
Primary key
Foreign Key
Referential Integrity Rules
Entities
Relationships
Mapping Cardinality
Optionality
Attributes
Composite Attributes
Multi-valued Attributes
Relations
Relational Models
Recursive Relationships
Weak Entities
Super and Sub Entities
Gerund
SQL
Constraints
Oracle Meta Tables
Oracle Data Types
Skills and Techniques:
Conceptual Data Modeling (Entity-Relationship Diagramming) from the understanding of business objects and their relationships or from forms, reports, tables, and other data carrier to understand data requirements... more >>
(641 Week 4 Outline) (by Liping Liu) Review of Forward Engineering Rules
Where do you create foreign keys for 1:m relationships? Are FK values required?
Where do you create foreign keys for m:m relationships? Are FK values required?
Where do you create foreign keys for 1:1 relationships? Are FK values required?
How do you transform weak entities and associative entities?
Lecture 1: Grammatical Analysis: nouns for objects or attributes and verbs for relationships
Modeling Exercise 1: Insure-A-Person Inc... more >>
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