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Review Database Application Development. ER-diagram. Forms. Access Database Development. Reports. Queries. ER-diagram. Entity types Strong entity type Weak entity type Relationships Cardinality constraints Participation constraints Attributes atomic attributes
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ReviewDatabase Application Development ER-diagram Forms Access Database Development Reports Queries
ER-diagram Entity types Strong entity type Weak entity type Relationships Cardinality constraints Participation constraints Attributes atomic attributes composite attributes single-valued, multi-valued attributes derived attributes key, partial key, surrogate key, non-key attribute
name location number 1 fname lname works for minit N department salary address name sex 1 number of employees startdate 1 ssn controls manages employee 1 bdate N supervisor hours N degree supervisee M supervision works on 1 project dependents of name number location N dependent relationship name sex birthdate
Mapping from ER-diagrams onto relational schemas 1. Create a relation for each strong entity type 2. Create a relation for each weak entity type 3. For each binary 1:1 relationship choose an entity and include the other’s PK in it as an FK 4. For each binary 1:n relationship, choose the n-side entity and include an FK with respect to the other entity. 5. For each binary M:N relationship, create a relation for the relationship 6. For each multi-valued attribute create a new relation 7. For each n-ary relationship, create a relation for the relationship
EMPLOYEE fname, minit, lname, ssn, bdate, address, sex, salary, superssn, dno DEPARTMENT Dname, dnumber, mgrssn, mgrstartdate Dnumber, dlocation PROJECT DEPT _LOCATIONS Pname, pnumber, plocation, dnum WORKS_ON Essn, pno, hours DEPENDENT Essn, dependentname, sex, bdate, relationship
c x d y N 1 A B • About participation constraints • If a relationship is mandatory for an entity set, then • if the entity set is on the “many” side of the relationship, then a specification is required to ensure a foreign key has a value, and that it cannot be null • setting the ‘required’ property for the FK in MS Access, or • NOT NULL constraint in the DDL.
A B c d x y c The “required” property for attribute c is set “yes”.
Setting the required property to Yes
If the entity set is on the “one” side of a relationship, then a check constraint or database trigger can be specified to ensure compliance. c x d y N 1 A B
A B c d x y c A program should be produced to check that any value appearing in c-column in table A must appear at least once in c-column in table B.
Forms different components: - bound controls - unbound controls - calculated controls - drop-down list box (combo box) - check box - option group - command buttons
Reports seven sections: - report header - page header - group header - details - group footer - page footer - report footer
Queries different kinds of queries: - select queries - action queries Make-Table query Delete query Append-Table query Update query - Crosstab query - total queries Group by Aggregate functions: Count, sum, maximum, minimum, Average - one-to-one relationship, one-to-many relationship