Case Study 3

Relational Data Model

The task is to transform your E-R Diagram from Case 2 to the Relational Data model.

1. A university registrar’s office maintains data about the following:

a. Courses: number, title, credits, syllabus and prerequisites
b. Course offerings: course number, year, semester, section number, instructor/s,
timings and classroom
c. Students: student number, name and program
d. Instructors: identification number, name, department and title
Moreover, the enrollment of students in courses and grades awarded to the students in each
course they are enrolled for must be appropriately modeled.

Based on your ER Diagram from Case 2, generate the relational model for this item.

2. A dental clinic wanted to design a database. The organizational structure of the clinic
includes the owner who is also the head dentist. He employs 2 other dentists and also 1
receptionist. Now the patients can only be served by the dentist through appointments.
These appointments are scheduled via phone or via e-mail.
Other information needed:

• A patient can have only one dentist, but many appointments and surgeries
• A dentist sees multiple patients
• Each appointment’s date and time is recorded under apptDateandTime

You are to draw an entity-relationship diagram using the information above. As for the
attributes of the entities identified, you have to fill in on the entities having at least 5
attributes each.

Based on your ER Diagram from Case 2, generate the relational model for this item.

3. Jhay is the owner of a small computer repair shop and he would like to keep track of the
repair jobs for computer units they repair, the items used for each repair job, the labor costs
for each repair job, the repairmen performing each repair job, and the total cost of each
repair job.
When customers bring their units in to be repaired, a deposit is made first for the repair job
and are given a date to return. The repairmen then perform repairs on the customers’
computers based on the repair job and detail the labor costs and the items used for each
repair job.

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ralagria@up.edu.ph
 The customers pay the total cost of the repair job minus the deposit on the return date. The
admin personnel issues a receipt that this is considered the claim stub of the repaired unit.

Draw an entity relationship diagram for the above narrative. The entities should involve
repairs, computers, items, repairmen, customers, deposits and payments.

Based on your ER Diagram from Case 2, generate the relational model for this item.

Include in your presentation the equivalent relational models for each problem.

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R. F. A. Lagria
ralagria@up.edu.ph