Reggie S.

Ferrer

BSIT 2-A

Individual Assessment Task

1. A many- to-many relationship (also called a nonspecific relationship) can and generally
should be resolved into a pair of one.-to-many relationship with an associative entity. When
is this not the case? A non-specific relationship, also referred to as a "many to many
relationship", is an association between two entities in which each instance of the first entity
is associated with zero, one, or many instances of the second entity and each instance of the
second entity is associated with zero, one, or many instances of the first entity. For example,
if an employee can be assigned to many projects and a project can have many employees
assigned, then the connection between the entities EMPLOYEE and PROJECT can be
expressed as a non-specific relationship.

2. Give an example of a many-to-many relationship. Resolve using an entity or an associative

entity. Which did you use? Why?

STUDENT ENROLLMENT COURSE

TEACH

TEACHER

We would use a diamond for a typical many-to-many relationship between Student and Course. If
we want to associate Enrollment to Teacher, we can make Enrollment an associative entity.

3. A customer goes to a shoe store and purchases several pairs of shoes. Diagram this
relationship.

Name
Customer
Price
Email address

Service
Product