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Monday, 18 June 2012

What are types of attributes ?, What is the domain of attribute?, What is composite attribute?




What are types of attributes ?, What is the domain of attribute?, What is composite attribute?




An entity is represented by a set of attributes, that is descriptive
properties possessed by all members of an entity set.
Domain – the set of permitted values for each attribute
Attribute types:

  • Simple and composite attributes.
  • Single-valued and multi-valued attributes
  • E.g. multivalued attribute: phone-numbers
  • Derived attributes
  • Can be computed from other attributes
  • E.g. age, given date of birth

Example:
customer = (customer-id, customer-name,
customer-street, customer-city)
loan = (loan-number, amount)


Composite Attribute

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