AI Features

Attributes

In this lesson, we discuss the different types of attributes present in an ER diagram.

Attributes

As stated in the previous lesson, each entity is described by a set of attributes. For example, the EMPLOYEE entity has attributes Name, Address, and Salary, etc.

Each attribute has a name, is associated with an entity, and has a range of values it is allowed to take (an employee’s salary cannot be negative). However, information about the domain of an attribute is not presented in the ER diagram. ...