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 attribute-value pairs as information
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 database keys and indexing
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 entities
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 entity-relationship database model
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 database as a model of reality
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 Thesa data model
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 data as a named set of data objects
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 object and value equivalence
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 data types in Thesa
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 type conversion
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 units
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 name of a relationship
 |  | ReferenceQuotations Chen, P.P.-S.,
"The entity-relationship model--toward a unified view of data",
 ACM Transactions on Database Systems,  1,  1, pp.  9-36,  March 1976.
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| 9 ;;Quote: the real world consists of entities and relationships; basis for entity-relationship model 
 |  | 12 ;;Quote: observed or measured information about an entity or relationship is expressed as a set of attribute-value pairs 
 |  | 12 ;;Quote: units define equivalent values between two value sets |  | QuoteRef: chenPP3_1976 ;;14 entities: employee with attributes employee-no. Name, age relationship: project-worker with attribute percentage of time |  | QuoteRef: chenPP3_1976 ;;14 "Basically, an entity key is a group of attributes such that the mapping from the entity set to the corresponding group of value sets is one-to-one 
 |  | 16 ;;Quote: since a relationship is identified by the involved entities, can use their keys for the relationship key | 
 
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