Graphical Notation - Data Warehouse Systems: Design and Implementation - page 578

Appendix A
Graphical Notation

In the following, we summarize the graphical notation used in this topic.

A.1 Entity-Relationship Model

name Client

Entity type
(short description)

name

Client

identifier attribute ClientId

FirstName (1,1)
LastName
BirthDate
SalaryRange
NoChildren (0,1)
Profession (1,n)
Address
Street
City
Hobbies (0,n)
Name
Rank

default cardinality

simple monovalued
attributes

cardinalities

multivalued attribute
composite attribute
component attributes

multivalued composite
attribute
component attributes

Entity type
(with attributes and identifiers shown)

Section

Weak entity type
(short description)