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Database design is a very difficult problem. Recently, the Entity-Relationship Model has been found very useful in helping the database designer to identify the information needs of users, and to design logical data structures in databases. In this paper, an application of the Entity-Relationship Model to the design of an order entry database is presented. Applications of the Entity-Relationship Model to other areas (such as DBMS design, data semantics, and distributed databases) are also briefly discussed.
The major part of this research was performed when the author was affiliated with the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139. This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant No. MCS 78-20005 and MCS 77-20829.
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Chen, P.PS. (1982). Applications of the Entity-Relationship model. In: Yao, S.B., Navathe, S.B., Weldon, J.L., Kunii, T.L. (eds) Data Base Design Techniques I:. DBDT 1978. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-11214-6_5
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