Data Entities and Relationships
We begin designing bookbiz using a somewhat simplified version of entity-relationship modeling. At the most basic level, entity-relationship modeling (also called entity modeling) means identifying
The things—entities—about which information will be stored in the database system
The properties of these entities
The relationships among the entities
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