Case Study - 1
Complete Example for E/R schema:
Specifications (1/3)
1. In an educational institute, there are several
departments and students belong to one of them.
Each department has a unique department number, a
name, a location, phone number and is headed by a
professor.
2. Professors have a unique employee Id, name, phone
number. We like to keep track of the following details
regarding students: name, unique roll number, sex,
phone number, date of birth, age and one or more
email addresses.
Complete Example for E/R schema:
Specifications (2/3)
3. Students have a local address consisting of the hostel
name and the room number. They also have home
address consisting of house number, street, city and
PIN. It is assumed that all students reside in the
hostels.
4. A course taught in a semester of the year is called a
section. There can be several sections of the same
course in a semester; these are identified by the
section number. Each section is taught by a different
professor and has its own timings and a room to meet.
Complete Example for E/R schema:
Specifications (3/3)
5. Students enroll for several sections in a semester. Each
course has a name, number of credits and the department
that offers it. A course may have other courses as pre-
requisites i.e, courses to be completed before it can be
enrolled in.
6. Professors also undertake research projects. These are
sponsored by funding agencies and have a specific start
date, end date and amount of money given. More than one
professor can be involved in a project. Also a professor
may be simultaneously working on several projects. A
project has a unique projectId.
Entities -Student
Entities –Department and Course
Entities –Professor, Project and
Sections
E/R Diagram showing relationships
Case Study - 2
Example COMPANY Database
• Requirements of the Company
(oversimplified for illustrative purposes)
– The company is organized into
DEPARTMENTs. Each department has a name,
number and an employee who manages the
department. We keep track of the start date of
the department manager.
– Each department controls a number of
PROJECTs. Each project has a name, number
and is located at a single location.
Example COMPANY Database (Cont.)
– We store each EMPLOYEE’s social security
number, address, salary, sex, and birthdate.
Each employee works for one department but
may work on several projects. We keep track of
the number of hours per week that an employee
currently works on each project. We also keep
track of the direct supervisor of each employee.
– Each employee may have a number of
DEPENDENTs. For each dependent, we keep
track of their name, sex, birthdate, and
relationship to employee.
An ER schema diagram for the COMPANY database.
Exercises
Exercise - 1
• A university registrar’s office maintains data about the following
entities:
– (a) Courses, including course number, title , credits,
syllabus, and prerequisites;
– (b) Course offerings, including course number, year,
semester, section number, instructor's, timings, and
classroom;
– (c) Students, including student-id, name, and program; and
– (d) Instructors, including identification number, name,
department, and title. Further, the enrollment of students in
courses and grades awarded to students in each course they
are enrolled for must be appropriately modeled.
Construct an E-R diagram for the registrar’s office. Document
all assumptions that you make about the mapping
constraints.
Exercise - 2
• Construct an E-R diagram for a car-insurance
company whose customers own one of more cars
each. Each car has associated with it zero to any
number of recorded accidents.
• Construct an E-R diagram for a hospital with a
set of patients and set of medical doctors.
Associate with each patient a log of the various
tests and examinations conducted.
