CSC380 – Principles of Database Systems

Tutorial # 2

 Choose a database application with which you are familiar. Design a schema
and show a sample database for that application, using the notation of Figures
1.2 and 2.1. What types of additional information and constraints would you
like to represent in the schema? Think of several users of your database, and
design a view for each.

Library management system

 Schema:

BOOK
ISBN Title Publisher

BOOK_AUTHORS
ISBN Name

BOOK_COPIES
ISBN Branch_ID No_of_Copies

BOOK_LOANS
ISBN Branch_ID Card_No Date_Out Due_Date

LIBRARY_BRANCH
Branch_ID Branch_Name Address

BORROWER
Card_No Name Address Phone

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 Sample Database:

BOOK
ISBN Title Publisher
123456 Paper Towns Pub1
334455 The Last Leaves Falling Pub4
997545 The Art of Being Normal Pub1

BOOK_AUTHORS
ISBN Name
334455 Lisa Wang
334455 John Bradley
997545 Ed Thomson
123456 Eric Raymond

BOOK_COPIES
ISBN Branch_ID No_of_Copies
123456 11 6
123456 12 10
997545 14 2
334455 11 1

BOOK_LOANS
ISBN Branch_ID Card_No Date_Out Due_Date
334455 11 903 11/9/2015 11/10/2015
123456 11 915 9/3/2015 9/4/2015
123456 12 920 1/1/2015 1/2/2015
997545 14 920 13/4/2015 13/5/2015

LIBRARY_BRANCH
Branch_ID Branch_Name Address
11 Main Branch Olaya St
12 Rabwa Branch Malaz
14 Rawdah Branch Makkah Rd
15 Dariyah Branch Prince Turki

BORROWER
Card_No Name Address Phone
903 John Smith 123 F St 555-4987
915 Susan Benson 490 Main St 555-2222
920 Richard Wily 111 Maple St 498-0000

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 Constraints:
These are examples of constraints. Students may suggest different ones.

The following fields (columns) or combination of fields should have unique values
within their tables:

 BOOK (ISBN)
 BOOK_AUTHORS (ISBN,Name)
 BOOK_COPIES (ISBN, Branch_ID)
 BOOK_LOANS (ISBN, Branch_ID, Card_No)
 LIBRARY_BRANCH (Branch_ID)
 BORROWER (Card_No)

The values in the following fields in their tables should have matching values in the
corresponding tables:

 BOOK_AUTHORS (ISBN) must have a matching value in BOOK (ISBN)

 BOOK_COPIES (ISBN) must have a matching value in BOOK (ISBN)
 BOOK_COPIES (Branch_ID) must have a matching value in LIBRARY_BRANCH
(Branch_ID)
 BOOK_LOANS (ISBN) must have a matching value in BOOK (ISBN)
 BOOK_LOANS (Branch_ID) must have a matching value in LIBRARY_BRANCH
(Branch_ID)
 BOOK_LOANS (Card_No) must have a matching value in BORROWER
(Card_No)

The data type of some fields can be restricted as follows:

 The ISBN field in all tables is a 6 digit number
 Number_of_Copies is integer
 Title is string
 Date_Out and Due_Date are of Date data type with the format dd/mm/yyyy
 …