Attributes
Learn to identify and understand different attribute types in entity-relationship diagrams, including simple, composite, multivalued, and derived attributes. This lesson equips you to describe entities precisely and sets the foundation for understanding keys in databases.
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Attributes
As stated in the previous lesson, each entity is described by a set of attributes. For example, the EMPLOYEE entity has attributes Name, Address, and Salary, etc.
Each attribute has a name, is associated with an entity, and has a range of values it is allowed to take (an employee’s salary cannot be negative). However, information about the domain of an attribute is not presented in the ER diagram.
In the entity-relationship ...