Exercise 2

1.

A rental car agency classifies the vehicles it rents into four categories:
compact, midsize, full-size, and sport utility. The agency wants to record the
following data for all vehicles: Veh_ID, Make, Model, Year, and Color. There
are no unique attributes for any of the four classes of vehicle. The entity type
vehicle has a relationship (named Rents) with a customer entity type. None
of the four vehicle classes has a unique relationship with an entity type.
Would you consider creating a supertype/subtype relationship for this
problem? Why or why not?

2.

A bank has three types of accounts: checking, saving, and loan. Following are
the attributes for each type of account:
Checking: Acct_no, Date_opened, Balance, service_charge
Savings: Acct_no, Date_opened, Balance, Interest_Rate
Loan: Acct_no, Date_opened, Balance, Interest_rate, Payment
Assume that each bank account must be a member of exactly one of these
subtypes. Using generalisation, develop an EER model segment to represent
this situation. Remember to include a subtype discriminator.

3.

Draw an EER diagram for the following problem. A non-profit organization

depends on a number of different types of persons for its successful
operation. The organization is interested in the following attributes for all of
these persons: SSN, Name, Address, City/State/Zip, and Telephone. Three
types of persons are of greatest interest: employees, volunteers, and donors.
Employees only have a Date_Hired attribute, and volunteers only have a Skill
attribute. Donors only have a relationship (named Donates) with an Item
entity type. A donor must have donated one or more items, and an item may
have no donors, or one or more donors.
There are persons other than employees, volunteers, and donors who are of
interest to the organization, so that a person need not belong to any of these
three groups. On the other hand, at a given time a person may belong to two
or more of these groups (for example, employee and donor).

4.

At a weekend retreat, the entity type PERSON has three subtypes: CAMPER,
BIKER, and RUNNER. Draw a separate EER diagram segment for each of the
following situations:
a.
At a given time, a person must be exactly one of these subtypes.
b.
A person may or may not be one of these subtypes. However, a
person who is one of these subtypes cannot at the same time be one
of the other subtypes.
c.
A person may or may not be one of these subtypes. On the other
hand, a person may be any two (or even three) of these subtypes at
the same time.
d.
At a given time, a person must be at least one of these subtypes.

5.

The MIS department of our business wants to build a database to track all our
hardware and software. We won workstations, network servers, and
peripherals. The department wants to keep track of software packages as

well as the licenses for those packages. Some software licenses are for single
machines. We can install them on network servers, but we can permit only
as many network users as we own licenses. We also own network licenses. A
single network license authorizes a specific number of users. No network
licenses may be installed on either workstations or servers. Network licenses
may be installed only on servers. We want to keep track of where software
licenses are installed. Some licenses may not be installed anywhere at any
given time. We must also be able to prove the legality of any software we
have installed. Each license must be traced to either a purchase order, a gift,
or a loan. We may also have certain software on order. We order packages,
but we receive licenses. Construct the data model and attribute it through
brainstorming.
6.

Most students have bank accounts. Construct a data model that shows the
relationships that exist among customers, different types of accounts (e.g.,
checking, savings, loan, funds), and transactions (e.g., deposits, withdrawals,
payments, ATMS). Attribute your model such that it could be used to produce
a consolidated bank statement.

7.

To schedule classes, your school needs to know about courses that can be
offered, instructors and their availability, equipment requirements for
courses, and rooms (and their equipments). From the courses, that can be
scheduled, the schedulers select the courses that will be scheduled. For each
of those courses, they schedule one or more classes (sometimes called
sections or divisions). The schedulers must assign classes to instructors,
rooms, and time slots. The schedulers are constrained by the reality that (1)
some courses cannot conflict because may students take them during the
same terms, (2) instructors cannot be in two places at the same time, and (3
rooms cannot be double-booked. Construct a data model to help the
schedulers.

3.

Address
City/State/Zip

Name

SSN

PERSON

Telephone
Person_Type:

Person_Type
O
E?

D?
V?
E?=Y
V?=Y

D?=Y

EMPLOYEE
VOLUNTEER

Date_Hired

Skill

DONOR

Donates

ITEM

1. No none of the vehicle classifications has a unique attribute or a unique relationship.

4.
PERSON

d
RUNNER

CAMPER
BIKER

b.

PERSON

d
CAMPER

RUNNER
BIKER

c.

PERSON

CAMPER

RUNNER
BIKER

d.
PERSON

RUNNER

CAMPER
BIKER

2.
Date_Opened

Account
_Type

ACCOUNT

Acct_No

Balance

Account_Type=

d
C

CHECKING

Service
_Change

SAVINGS

Interest
_Rate

LOAN

Payment

Interest
_Rate

5.
ASSET

WORKSTATION

HARDWARE

SOFTWARE

ASSET

ASSET

SERVER

has

PERIPHERAL

LICENSE

has installed

NETWORK

NON-NETWORK

LICENSE

LICENSE

has installed

has installed
was obtained via

was obtained via

was obtained via

LOAN

GIFT

PURCHASE
ORDER

6.

has

ACCOUNT
Key Data
Account-ID [PK1]
Non-Key Data
Account-Origination-Date
Account-Status

CUSTOMER
Key Data
Customer-ID [PK1]
Non-Key Data
Customer-Name
Customer-Address
Customer-Telephone-No
SSN

SAVINGS

CHECKING

ACCOUNT
Non-Key Data
Savings-Interest-Rate
Savings-Minimum-Balance-LImit
Savings-Current-Balance
Savings-YTD-Deposit-Amount
Savings-YTD-Withdrawl-Amount
Savings-YTD-Accum-Interest

ACCOUNT
Non-Key Data
Checking-minimum-balance
Checking-YTD-Deposits
Checking-YTD-Withdrawals
Checking-Current-Balance

LOAN
ACCOUNT
Non-Key Data
Original-Loan-Amount
Loan-Length
Loan-Interest-Rate
Principle-Amount-Due
Payment-Due
YTD-Interest-Paid

ACCOUNT
executes

TRANSACTION
Key Data
Transaction-ID [PK1]
Account-ID [PK2] [FK]
Customer-ID [PK3] [FK]
Non-Key Data
Transaction-Date
Transaction-Time

DEPOSIT
Key Data
Transaction-ID [PK1] [FK]
Account-ID [PK2] [FK]
Non-Key Data
Deposit-Amount

WITHDRAWAL
Key Data
Transaction-ID [PK1] [FK]
Account-ID [PK2] [FK]
Non-Key Data
Withdrawal-Amount

is involved with

PAYMENT
Key Data
Transaction-ID [PK1] [FK]
Account-ID [PK2] [FK]
Non-Key Data
Payment-Amount

7.
BUILDING

has

ROOM

ROOM

has

EQUIPMENT

is for

FEATURES

FEATURES

is associated with

ROOM
SCHEDULE

is taught at

is for

INSTRUCTOR

is for

TIME SLOT

EQUIPMENT

SCHEDULE

REQUIREMENTS

is associated with

INSTRUCTOR

is for

is assigned

SECTION

COURSE

contains