Assignment 6

"Modern Systems Analysis and Design" (by Joseph S. Valacich & Joey F. George)
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One-to-many

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The relationship between Movie and Customer is many-to-many.
Yes, there is a relationship between Store and Customer. The relationship between Store and
Customer is also many to many, since customers can buy from different stores and one store
can have many customers. However, if there is a case when Customers are considered to be
Customers of one particular store then the relationship is one-to-many. Customer Number can
be used as an identifier for Customer entity, which is unique for each customer.

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Part_Number - Candidate key, since it is unique, cannot be null, and cannot change over time.
Part_Number is also Identifier.
Other attributes such as Part_ID can be required, because it is assigned automatically and does
not have connection with other attributes.

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a) Employee_ID and Course_ID
b) Employee_ID, Course_ID and Date_completed, because unique key is provided only by
the composition of these attributes

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Data Flow Diagrams(DFDs) are important before the development of conceptual data modeling,
because graphically represents the functions, or processes, which capture, manipulate, store,
and distribute data between a system and its environment and between components of a
system. In addition, it allows starting from a broad overview and expand it to a hierarchy of
detailed diagrams.

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