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CHAPTER 4
Enhanced Entity-Relationship
(EER) Modeling
n Disjointness Constraint:
n Specifies that the subclasses of the specialization
must be disjoint:
n an entity can be a member of at most one of the
subclasses of the specialization
n Specified by d in EER diagram
n If not disjoint, specialization is overlapping:
n that is the same entity may be a member of more
than one subclass of the specialization
n Specified by o in EER diagram