AN ASSIGNMENT

ON
“THE ENTITY RELATIONSHIP
DIAGRAM OF HEALTH CARE CENTRE
FOR STUDENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF
BURDWAN”

SUBMITTED TO
FACULTY, R.K. GUPTA
CENTRE FOR MANAGEMENT STUDIES,
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION THE UNIVERSITY OF
BURDWAN.

SUBMITTED BY
BIPLAB ANKURI(ROLL-26),
PRADEEP KUMAR(ROLL-29)
MBA(GEN.)
2009-2011
 Acknowledgements

Our heartfelt gratitude to the Faculty, R.K.

GUPTA who made us to do this useful assignment.
In the initial stage of making this project we have
faced many problems but we really contributed, we
finally made this assignment. We are thankful to our
respected Faculty, R.K. GUPTA without whose
guidance this assignment would not been successful.

1. Biplab Ankuri (roll no.-26)

2.Pradeep Kumar (roll no.-29)

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 INTRODUCTION

A relationship is an association that exists between two entities.

For example, Instructor teaches Class or Student attends Class.
The relationships on an Entity-Relationship Diagram are
represented by lines drawn between the entities involved in the
association. The name of the relationship is placed either above, below,
or beside the line.

ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP MODEL

The entity-relationship diagram is a tool for designing and analyzing

databases, and in particular for applying a technique called entity-
relationship (ER) modeling to the design process. It has proven to be
very successful at rendering the relationships among the data fields, or
variables, contained within a given database.
There can be a simple relationship between two entities. For
example, Student attends a Class:

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 Generally E-R Diagrams require the use of the following symbols

There are three types of relationship cardinality:

• one-to-one,
• one-to-many,
• many-to-many.

One-to-One (1:1)

A one-to-one relationship between two entities indicates that each

occurrence of one entity in the relationship is associated with a single
occurrence in the related entity. There is a one-to-one mapping between
the two, such that knowing the value of one entity gives you the value of
the second. For example, in this relationship an Employee uses a
maximum of one Workstation:

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 One to Many
(1:M), Many
to One (M:1)

A one-
to-many or a
many-to-one
relationship
between two
entities
indicates that
a single
occurrence of
one entity is
associated
with one or more occurrences of the related entity. The example
indicates that there is one Project Manager associated with each Project,
and that each Project Manager may be associated with more than one
Project.

Many to Many (M:M)

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 A many-to-many relationship between two entities indicates that
either entity participating in the relationship may occur one or several
times. The example indicates that there may be more than one
Employee associated with each Project, and that each Employee may be
associated with more than one Project at a time. That is, projects may
share employees.

ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM OF HEALTH CARE

CENTRE FOR STUDENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN

In the health care centre the following conditions are given:

1. The important entities in this situation are the patients and doctors.
2. The diagram indicates that a doctor may admit many patients to the
hospital, and just one doctor admits each patient.
3. A doctor may treat many patients in the hospital, and a patient may
be treated by a number of different doctors while they are in the
hospital.
4. Details of the treatment (date, time and results) are recorded for
each treatment.

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 The following figure shows a sample entity relationship diagram
that represents the relationships between patients admitted to a
hospital and the doctors who treat them:

Figure : A sample entity relationship diagram that represents the

relationships between patients admitted to a hospital and the doctors who
treat them.

ENTITY SETS ATTRIBUTES KEY

ATTRIBUTES

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 1. DOCTOR Doctor_ID, Doctor_ID
Specialty.

2. PATIENT Patient_Name, Patient_Number

Patient_Number.

Relationships

A relationship in an ERD describes the associations between entities that

are of interest to the organisation and users. Relationships are shown in
an ERD by a diamond with a description of the relationship written (in
lower case letters) in the diamond. Lines connect the diamond to the
related entities. In Figure there are two relationships, 'admits' and
'treats'.