Purchase Solution

The Process of Conceptual Data Modeling

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Conceptual Modeling looks at how the data is structured and what the characteristics of the data are. What characteristics of data are represented in an E-R diagram?

Purchase this Solution

Solution Summary

This solution explains of how an Entity-Relationship (E-R) Diagram can become a primary model of conceptual database design. An E-R diagram is discussed in terms of structures, components, characteristics, and examples. This solution is 360 words with references as of Nov. 22, 2012 (not APA format).

Solution Preview

Hi,

I have pasted below my solution to your homework and I hope it can guide you on how you are going to respond to your assignment.

Thank you for using BrainMass.

Sincerely,
Your OTA

An E-R diagram or Entity-Relationship diagram (ERD) has been considered as the primary model of conceptual database design due to the fact that it is a good demonstration of a conceptual data model. Database designers find E-R diagrams useful tools in demonstrating the relationships between an organization's entities. To create a standard approach, blocks and lines are used as a structure to make the model understandable to everyone in the industry. A company's data is ...

Purchase this Solution


Free BrainMass Quizzes
Balance Sheet

The Fundamental Classified Balance Sheet. What to know to make it easy.

Social Media: Pinterest

This quiz introduces basic concepts of Pinterest social media

Marketing Management Philosophies Quiz

A test on how well a student understands the basic assumptions of marketers on buyers that will form a basis of their marketing strategies.

Understanding the Accounting Equation

These 10 questions help a new student of accounting to understand the basic premise of accounting and how it is applied to the business world.

Business Ethics Awareness Strategy

This quiz is designed to assess your current ability for determining the characteristics of ethical behavior. It is essential that leaders, managers, and employees are able to distinguish between positive and negative ethical behavior. The quicker you assess a person's ethical tendency, the awareness empowers you to develop a strategy on how to interact with them.