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The Entity Relationship Model — Toward a Unified View of Data

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A data model, called the entity-relationship model, is proposed. This model incorporates some of the important semantic information about the real world. A special diagrammatic technique is introduced as a tool for database design. An example of database design and description using the model and the diagrammatic technique is given. Some implications for data integrity, information retrieval, and data manipulation are discussed.

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    Peter Pin-Shan Chen

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, 80290, München, Germany

    Manfred Broy (Professor of Informatics) (Professor of Informatics)

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Chen, P.PS. (2002). The Entity Relationship Model — Toward a Unified View of Data. In: Broy, M., Denert, E. (eds) Software Pioneers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59412-0_18

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