Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management
Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management
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ISBN: 9781285196145
Author: Steven, Steven Morris, Carlos Coronel, Carlos, Coronel, Carlos; Morris, Carlos Coronel and Steven Morris, Carlos Coronel; Steven Morris, Steven Morris; Carlos Coronel
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Entity cluster:

  • An entity cluster is used to represent many entities and relationships in the ER (Entity Relationship) diagram. It is a virtual entity type.
  • Combining many interrelated entities into a one abstract entity object is called as an entity cluster.
  • It is consider as “abstract” or “virtual” which means it is not actually an entity in the final ER diagram, but in...

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