ENTITY

An entity is something that has a distinct, separate existence, though it need not be a material
existence. In particular, abstractions and legal fictions are usually regarded as entities. In
general, there is also no presumption that an entity is animate. Entities are used in system
developmental models that display communications and internal processing of, say,
documents compared to order p

ENTITY RELATIONSHIP
In software engineering, an entity-relationship model (ERM) is an abstract and conceptual
representation of data. Entity-relationship modeling is a database modeling method, used to produce
a type of conceptual schema or semantic data model of a system, often arelational database, and its
requirements in a top-down fashion. Diagrams created by this process are called entity-relationship
diagrams, ER diagrams, or ERDs.

ATTRRIBUTES

re - In general, an attribute is a property or characteristic. Color, for example, is an attribute

of your hair. In using or programming computers, an attribute is a changeable property or In

WEAK ENTITY
a relational database, a Weak Entity is an entity that cannot be uniquely identified by its
attributes alone; therefore, it must use a foreign key in conjunction with its attributes to create
a primary key. The foreign key is typically a primary key of an entity it is related to.

Data base
A database consists of an organized collection of data for one or more multiple uses. One
way of classifying databases involves the type of content, for example: bibliographic, full-
text, numeric, image. Other classification methods start from examining database models or
database architectures: see below. Software organizes the data in a database according to a
database model. As of 2010 the relational model occurs most commonly. Other models such
as the hierarchical model and the network model use a more explicit representation of
relationships.
characteristic of some component of a program that can be set to different values.cessing.