Subject: Designing and Implementing a Movie Database

From: Regal Theaters

To: DB Solutions

We look forward to your design and implementation of a Movie Database over the next 4 weeks. As we agreed to
in our Statement of Work (SOW), the following four milestones shall be accomplished:

1. Week 1 – Design the Movie Database

2. Week 2 – Prototype Demonstration (using single table queries)
3. Week 3 – Taking Queries to the Next Level (using multiple table queries)
4. Week 4 – Contract Signoff Demonstration (using advanced query techniques)

Week 1 milestone requires that you complete an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) of our Movie Database (the
start of which is contained in a PowerPoint file). Listed below are our requirements that you will use to complete
the ERD. These requirements determine the attributes listed in each of the Movie Database tables.

Movie Database Requirements

1. For each movie Regal Theaters requires that the database keep track of:
a. An ID that uniquely identifies each movie
b. Title of the movie
c. Genre of the movie
d. MPAA rating of the movie
e. Release date of the movie
f. Length of the movie in minutes
2. For each director Regal Theaters requires that the database keep track of:
a. An ID that uniquely identifies each director
b. First name of the director
c. Last name of the director
3. For each star Regal Theaters requires that the database keep track of:
a. An ID that uniquely identifies each star
b. First name of the star
c. Last name of the star
4. Table relationship information
a. There is a one-to-many relationship between the DIRECTOR table and the MOVIE table. In other
words, one director can direct many movies
b. There is a many-to-many relationship between the MOVIE table and the STAR table. In other words
one movie has many stars and one star can appear in many movies. To accomplish this many-to-many
relationship your ERD design includes a “join” table, titled MOVIE_STAR, which joins the MOVIE table
to the STAR table.

Sincerely, Amy E. Miles

Amy Miles, CEO Regal Entertainment Group