Introduction to Databases

CT042-3-1-IDB

Lecture 3: Data Model

 Topic & Structure of The
Lesson

• Data model
• Business rules
• Relational model
• Entity Relationship Model

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 Learning
Outcomes

• At the end of this topic, You should be able to

– Describe types of data model
– Write business rules
– Understand entity relationship model

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 Key Terms You Must Be Able To Use

• If you have mastered this topic, you should be able to use the following
terms correctly in your assignments and exams:
– Data model
– Business rules
– ERD

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 In this chapter, you will learn:

• Why data models are important

• About the basic data-modeling building
blocks
• What business rules are and how they
influence database design
• How the major data models evolved

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 The Importance of Data Models

• Data models
– Relatively simple representations, usually graphical, of complex real-world data
structures
– Facilitate interaction among the designer, the applications programmer, and the end
user

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 The Importance of Data Models (continued)

• End-users have different views and needs for data

• Data model organizes data for various users

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 Data Model Basic Building Blocks
• Entity - anything about which data are to be
collected and stored
• Attribute - a characteristic of an entity
• Relationship - describes an association
among entities
– One-to-many (1:M) relationship
– Many-to-many (M:N or M:M) relationship
– One-to-one (1:1) relationship
• Constraint - a restriction placed on the data

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 Business Rules

• Brief, precise, and unambiguous descriptions

of a policies, procedures, or principles within
a specific organization
• Apply to any organization that stores and
uses data to generate information
• Description of operations that help to create
and enforce actions within that
organization’s environment

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 Business Rules (continued)

• Must be rendered in writing

• Must be kept up to date
• Sometimes are external to the organization
• Must be easy to understand and widely disseminated
• Describe characteristics of the data as viewed by the company

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 Discovering Business Rules

Sources of Business Rules:

• Company managers
• Policy makers
• Department managers
• Written documentation
– Procedures
– Standards
– Operations manuals
• Direct interviews with end users

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 Discovering Business Rules (continued)

• Generally, nouns translate into entities

• Verbs translate into relationships among entities
• Relationships are bi-directional

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 The Evolution of Data Models (continued)

• Hierarchical
• Network
• Relational
• Entity relationship
• Object Oriented

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 The Hierarchical Data Model

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 The Network Model

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 The Relational Model

• Developed by Codd (IBM) in 1970

• Considered ingenious but impractical in 1970
• Conceptually simple
• Computers lacked power to implement the relational model
• Today, microcomputers can run sophisticated relational database
software

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 The Relational Model (continued)

• Table (relations)
– Matrix consisting of a series of row/column intersections
– Related to each other through sharing a common entity characteristic
• Relational diagram
– Representation of relational database’s entities, attributes within those entities, and
relationships between those entities

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 The Relational Model (continued)

• Relational Table
– Stores a collection of related entities
• Resembles a file
• Relational table is purely logical structure
– How data are physically stored in the database is of
no concern to the user or the designer
– This property became the source of a real database
revolution

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 The Relational Model (continued)

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 The Relational Model (continued)

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 The Entity Relationship Model

• Widely accepted and adapted graphical tool for data modeling

• Introduced by Chen in 1976
• Graphical representation of entities and their relationships in a
database structure

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 The Entity Relationship Model (continued)

• Entity relationship diagram (ERD)

– Uses graphic representations to model
database components
– Entity is mapped to a relational table
• Entity instance (or occurrence) is row in table
• Entity set is collection of like entities
• Connectivity labels types of relationships
– Diamond connected to related entities
through a relationship line

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 The Entity Relationship Model
(continued)

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 The Entity Relationship Model
(continued)

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 Quick Review Question

• What is data model?

• What is the source of business rules?
• What is entity relationship model?

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 Summary of Main Teaching Points

• Data models are simple representations, usually graphical, of

complex real-world data structures
• Business rules are brief, precise, and unambiguous
descriptions of a policies, procedures, or principles within a
specific organization.
• Entity relationship models are graphical representation of
entities and their relationships in a database structure

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 Question and Answer
Session

Q&A

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 What we will cover next

• Characteristics of relational table

• Different types of keys
• Integrity rules
• Data dictionary

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