This section describes the definition of entity types and their relationships. It defines entity and relationship concepts, their documentation and various guidelines and rules concerning the development of an entity relationship model.
Entity relationship modeling enables us to describe data and its inherent structure. The entity relationship model is represented as a diagram, known as the entity relationship diagram. This diagram is used to show our understanding of data and is used in later stages of the Application Development Methodology as a basis for data structure design.
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