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07 March 2018

Describe different types of relationship in a database management system




Relationship in a database management system: Consider a binary relationship set on entity sets A and B. There are four possible relationships in a database management system used in E-R diagram:-


(i) One-to-one: An entity in A is related to at most one entity in B and an entity in B is related to at most one entity in A.


(ii) One-to-many: An entity in A is related to any number (zero or more) of entities in B, but an entity in B is related to at most one entity in A.

(iii) Many-to-one: An entity in A is related to at most one entity in B, but an entity in B is related to any number of entities inA.




(iv) Many-to-many: An entity in A is related to any number of entities in B, but an entity in B is related to any number of entities in A.





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