Entities Design

Jan 31, 2006

Hi,
I’ve three questions, would someone answer them please,

I have 3 entities:
The book entity(BookNo,BookNmae,AuthorName,Price...etc), the MembershipCard entity(CardNo,MembershipNo,ClientNo,PublishDate,EmpNo..etc), and the Client entity(ClientNo,ClientName,ClientAddr,ClientPhoneBookNo,RequiredBookNo,..etc)
1-What is the relationship degree between them, is it ternary or binary?and Why?
I'm so confused ,my answer is ternary, I made a (1:m) relationship between the clients entity and the books entity (a client may buy more than one book), (1:m) relationship between the employee entity and the books entity (an employee may sell more than one book)and a (1:m) relationship between the employee and the Client(an employee may serve more than one client(is it right or it's (M:N)).
So is my answer is right or wrong, please help me to understand, I’m so confused.

2- Is the cardinality degree between the Client entity and the book entity , (0,N) for the client entity and (1:N) for the book entity??

3-What is the best model to use in designing data in general,Chen's model or Crow's Foot and why?I think it's Crow's one ,for it's more arranged and easy to read.

with thanks
deema

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Oct 26, 2007

Hi Everyone,

I'm attempting to design a schema for a project I working on. The idea is that I can store a list of documents and associate meta data with them.

The problem is that I don't know what that meta data will be at design time. The user will create the meta data fields in the software. For the first design I just had a table called meta field that contained the meta field defintion, and another table called itemdata that contained the document primary key, the metafield primary key and a value encoded as a varchar. This works fine while the list of documents is small.

Another idea I've thought of is to have seperate tables for all of the metafields. This would allow me to be very specific about the values that can be stored in that column etc. It also turns out that for the kind of queries I'm doing its about 4 times as fast. The only problem is that the software will need to create these tables at run time.

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