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Relationship
When an attribute of one entity type refers to
another entity type
Represent references as relationships not
attributes
Relationship type R among n entity types
E1, E2, ..., En
Defines a set of associations among entities
from these entity types
Relationship instances ri
Each ri associates n individual entities (e1,
e2, ..., en)
Each entity ej in ri is a member of entity set Ej
Degree of a relationship type
Relationship Type:
Is the schema description of a relationship
Identifies the relationship name and the
participating entity types
Also identifies certain relationship constraints
Relationship Set:
The current set of relationship instances
represented in the database
The current state of a relationship type