The ER model have mainly three concepts.

They are Entities, Relationship types and attributes

The group of objects called Entity Type

The physical existence identified as "Staff"

The Entity occurrence means uniquely identified object of an entity type

Every entity type is shown as a rectangle shape. When we label with the name of the entity called
"Noun"

Entity Name

Staff Branch

The set of meaningful associations among entity type named as "Relationship Type". The relationship
occurrence uniquely identifiable association which includes one occurrence from each participating entity
type.

There every relationship type is shown as a line connecting with the associated entity types and labelled
with the name of the relationship. Here we can use very or short type phrases that normally including
with verb

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ER diagram of Branch Has Staff relationship mentioned below:

Entity Name

Has
Staff Branch

‘Branch Has Staff’

When we analysis about Attributes it is mentioned as below

Attribute is a property of an entity or it is a relationship type

The set of allowable values for one or more attributes name as "Attribute Domain"

Simple Attribute

The attribute composed of a single component with an independent existence

We cannot be further sub divided into smaller components. Like for example If an employee entity we are
not able to divide EmployeeID

The composite attribute mentioned when there is an attribute composed with multiple components and
also each entity attribute with an independent existence

Meaning of Single Value Attribute

The attribute that holds a single value for each occurrence of an entity type

Multi Valued Attribute

The attribute that holds multiple values for each occurrence of a selected entity type

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Derived Attribute

The attribute that represents a value that is derivable from value of a related attribute else the set of
attribute that is not necessary in the same entity type