Week 8 Assignment 2 Create an ERD
Create an ERD
Preparation
In this assignment, you will be drawing an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) or Database Design Diagram. The following videos and documents will assist you:
Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) Tutorial – Part 1.
Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) Tutorial – Part 2.
Ultimate ER Diagram Tutorial (Entity Relationships Diagrams).
Scenario
Suppose a local college has tasked you to develop a database that will keep track of students and the courses that they have taken. In addition to tracking the students and courses, the client wants the database to keep track of the instructors teaching each of the courses.
Instructions for the Database Design Diagram
Use any drawing package or any other application you know such as Visio, Word, PowerPoint, or another tool to create the Database Design Diagram. Otherwise, you may draw the diagram by hand with a pen and paper. If you draw the diagram by hand, then take one or more pictures of the diagram with your cell phone or laptop camera, place the images into a Word document, and submit the document. Otherwise, if you use software to create the Database Design Diagram, then take one or more screen captures of the diagram, place the screen captures into a Word document, and submit the document. Submissions that are not in .doc or .docx format will not be graded.
Include the following in the document:
Draw the entities of the database and the attributes of each entity, based on your research and/or common knowledge of a college and the information tracked by a college.
Create the appropriate relationships between each entity within the diagram.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
Draw a database design diagram that depicts the attributes and relationships of the entities.
Note: All Assignments must be submitted into Blackboard. The whole Assignment (e.g. Assignment 1, 2, and 3) which includes both required images and written portion must be submitted into “one” MS Word document. All images pasted/copied into the MS Word document must contain an image label as to what the image represents. Assignments not submitted into “one” MS Word document will not be graded. Students must apply labels to their Database individual screen shots for Assignment 3.
This Video will help you understand “Assignment Two’s” challenge:
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