Practice - Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs)
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Practice Questions
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What does an entity represent in a database?
💡 Hint: Think about tables in a database.
What is the purpose of attributes in an entity?
💡 Hint: Consider what information is stored in each table.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does 'cardinality' indicate in an ERD?
💡 Hint: Think about the relationship between a customer and their orders.
True or False: Attributes are the characteristics of entities.
💡 Hint: Remember what information each entity holds.
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Challenge Problems
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Design an ERD for an online store including entities like Products, Customers, and Orders. Explain your choices of attributes and relationships.
💡 Hint: Think about how online shopping works!
Discuss the impact of normalization on database performance and provide an example of how an unnormalized database may perform poorly.
💡 Hint: Consider the difference between storing data once versus multiple times.
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