Entity-Relationship Diagrams

[@dayday8421]

If only there were more quality videos on KZbin like this! Well paced, easy to understand and well narrated.

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

David, thanks for your kind words!

[@jr1152]

@@NorwalkAberdeen make more tutorial vids please

[@johnhurley8918]

SOOOOOOOO helpful! You sir just summed up an entire chapter of my textbook in less than 9 minutes.

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

+John Hurley Awesome. Glad it's helpful!

[@abdulrahmanismailali1064]

@@NorwalkAberdeen can you help me

[@seabus.2003]

Who else came here from the "SQL for Data Sciene" course. Week 1, additional studies.

[@geraldineorieoma7169]

Meee😊

[@seabus.2003]

@@geraldineorieoma7169 That's nice, good luck with the studies 😊

[@GagandeepSingh-sb1uk]

what you guys doing now ! I just started studying

[@janinearif7850]

They should just play this in my lectures at university! It would have saved them 2 hours of us all wanting to fall to sleep. Thank you for explaining this in an easier-to-understand and not-so-boring way.

[@Rad-pt9wp]

Crazy how I found this video before following Coursera's recommendation to this video! I will binge watch the rest of this!

[@tasadem20]

Completely newbie here! Although it looks very complex, analogy is very simple. Everything makes sense right now. Thank you for your time!

[@Stagedrengen]

I'm late to the party on this, but a great instructional video on KZbin always deserves praise! Thanks a ton!

[@slothc]

Kudos on explaining an actual ER diagram instead of those confusing data model lookalikes most people choose (which are less abstract, and a lot of people prefer that, but easily lead to mistakes). I personally prefer listing attributes separately, beneath the ER diagram, to make it cleaner since ER is mostly about relationships and because attributes aren't really crucial for the ER part. p.s. I also hated these (on my first year), but on my fourth year when I got a serious db project, I finally understood them and started to love, well... appreciate, them.

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

+slothc Appreciation is good enough :) Regarding the attributes being listed separately, I wouldn't disagree with you. Especially because in the real world, the list of attributes can be enormous and muck up the visual model. Thanks for the kudos!

[@mahmoudsharshira1690]

OMG, I took ER Diagrams from 2 years at college and I used to hate them so much. However, I started to refresh about them because of SQL and well ah I love them now. Strange how people from different parts of the world can have the same Experience! Thank you buddy for the Great Explanation!

[@TheWaveism]

THANK YOU!!!! Finally a video that makes sense and properly explains an entity-relationship diagram! Very well done!

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

LOL, yeah, Don has a good nerd laugh. Glad you like it.

[@scimitar4211]

exactly what i needed to hear and see to make things simpler. thanks for everything

[@lifeviz28568]

so much better and well-explained than my databases professor. thanks for making this video, appreciate it! :)

[@gnomesonfire1]

This was so useful, I'll never be the first one to say it but going around you-tube looking for technical minded videos can be a nightmare even when the videos really are there with the best of intent. The explanations were clear and simple,each slide was nicely separated so it never felt as though there was too much going on at any one point the voice over that was giving the explanation of the video was clear, engaged and associable *when I say this, I'm criticizing the countless videos that go on with dry, highly scripted lines that just feel abominable to listen to without breaking your own sanity(

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

Great! Glad it's helpful!

[@sukhammittal7630]

The video was very simple, clear and easy to understand. Great Job!!

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

@Louise cris -- KZbin won't let me reply to your comment! Grr! In short, these diagrams are put together long before we start to worry about IDs and keys. We would start to use those concepts when creating a logical (or even physical) data model.

[@mr.commonsense6645]

This is soo helpful, hoping you make your videos. Your explanation is just very easy to understand

[@princessteeana8834]

Very clear and concise explanation, thank you!!

[@baqirhusain5652]

amazingly intuitive and simple to follow. Thank you. You are an extraordinary teacher.

[@hobieperez8144]

Thank you sir, This video made me understand what my prof tried to explain.

[@bharatiya804]

Thank you so much. You have made it so easy to understand.

[@abdelbadiakaramostefa8908]

I want to thank you a lot for this explanation.

[@bigchiefnoble6077]

I dont even know how i made it to this video but i just learned something. Great info

[@honprarules]

Anyone else here from the Coursera link? This is a great video!

[@abhishekghimire3539]

Clear and concise. Thank you sir!

[@mbenyane]

Thank you very much sir, you really helped me on my assignment.

[@osamamohamedos2033]

I spent one hour to see some one good But you are fantastic 🤩 Thx a lot it helps me ❤️

[@toluwabanjoko6620]

Thank you! I got over the hate significantly after watching this video😇

[@brand1974]

Great video. This explains a lot.

[@alleluiawoluba3601]

Simple and great explanation. Thanks

[@rinavenhlovska2279]

Thank you, dear author, you literally saved my life!

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

Ne za chto!

[@dayday8421]

OK, you have to explain as this sounds like an amazing story.... or did you just use literally incorrectly?

[@tarunverma4935]

Explained in the simplest way, glad I found your video for ER diagrams.

[@essas.coisas]

Wow thanks for the easy explanation !

[@masoudghahremani7913]

merci beacoup de votre explication claire monsieur.

[@xdebugger123]

Thank you sir very imformative and clearly explained the symbols

[@ejaywillie]

This is really good, I'm surprise on the low number of videos

[@haru4901]

not bad this sums up my first week in 9 minutes

[@JayasuryanChandrasekharCMF]

Simply amazing!

[@Seftehandle]

very nice video. thank you for the recomendations from learn sql from data science coursera course

[@datasciencewithshreyas1806]

Superb video, thank you so much.

[@Tanveer048]

easily understood .. thanks sir

[@8Trails50]

Awesome. I was pretty confused in lecture about the ER Diagram. Great video.

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

Great! Thanks for the feedback. :)

[@therealborischang]

Chen style takes u- a lot of diagram space by having attributes in individual ovals, and relationships in diamonds instead of just plain lines.

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

That is true, and they can give the impression that the relationships are entities rather than just descriptors. Couple things to watch out for.

[@devinjones1455]

thanks brother! Plain english is VERY helpful. BTW anyone ever tell you you sound like topher grace (eric from that 70's show)!

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

Glad it's helpful! And ha, no, I've never heard that until now :)

[@pratiksapkota5083]

i have an entity (staff). each of the staff members are managed by zero or one staff members, except Jane Thomas who does not have a manager. The staff members may manage zero or more staff members. Attributes for the staff are (ID, Names, Sex and Age)

[@AmitKumar-xn6vg]

Great Video.... So helpful....Thanks.................Seventh Morning LLC

[@НадяВасильева-ш6б]

Thank you! It was very informative and easy to understand.

[@Premier007]

Sweet video hopefully it will make my pass my database exam :)

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

Good luck!

[@pavelsavelev2560]

Really helpful , thank you

[@lazaros.v8626]

Much liked your method in actually identifying the Cardinality. Thanks : )

[@icpit]

5:37 That Laugh LOOOOOL!! its a great video though, Really helped. Thumbs up

[@jyotijangra388]

great tutorial man, kudos!

[@careyannesh]

I got so curious from the comments I had to skip forward to hear the laugh before I could concentrate lol.

[@morenomo6030]

Me too lol

[@AK476056]

Very helpful for A level, thank you

[@farukyldrm8498]

if I understand it correctly, in the diagram at 8:00 I thnk there is a typo in the relation "has", a course has multiple lectures (it can participate in multiple "has" reln instance) but a lecture belongs to 1 course, (a lecture can be seen at most one reln instance in the "has" reln set). so, the connection labels 1 and n are not in the correct places, they should be replaced.

[@Oz007]

Life saving :) much thanks

[@hikariwuff]

Oh my LORD, my teacher taught this badly

[@vinayabeveney5201]

Thank you so much! This was exactly what I needed!

[@gauthamp7169]

you saved my day ...brilliant

[@elianj.gonzalez3886]

i finally understand these THANK YOU

[@jasonkladas7827]

Good job!

[@vinoddiwan5792]

Which books should I read to gain this kind of knowledge.

[@danielangelomaniego1796]

Many thanks, it helped me alot :)

[@DeepSukhwani]

Thats a very helpful explanation. Thanks so much!

[@roosman5322]

im having trouble with the n and m what side do i use wich

[@meesie1]

How many database tables do you need if you have an ER diagram of: user studies course? Do I only have a user and course table with their attributes, or do I need a 3rd table called study?

[@jeanelbicho3]

+meesie1 hello friend, I'm studying computer science probably just as you and what we do is we have 3 tables for an entity - relationship - entity it is a little expensive in the database however this system is used to know exactly what could be the worst scenario for our database if we use a relational system and how much memory we need to assign to the database

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

Sorry - missed your question somehow! Just like Jean said, there is a third table. In this case, it might be called UserCourseMappings or something similar. And the mapping table just contains a column for the UserId and a column for the CourseId. Together those two columns comprise a composite primary key. I believe that's the most common practice. This third table also could be used if you have attributes of the relationship itself (just make additional columns in the mappings table).

[@abhineshchandra6718]

it was very good sir...thanks...

[@wilomuyoma8412]

Thank you!

[@chelangatjobchemorput903]

i have followe you explanation but may you please clarify on how to list assumptions and how to write a data documentation for the ER diagram

[@yosin12]

Good video, thanks.

[@Thezizoubear]

Excellent, thank you!

[@smoothie9931]

I know it's an old video, but does anyone know how to show a foreign key in chen notation

[@hcbros105]

"I actually used to hate these"😂😂

[@madushanprathap9901]

Thank You

[@germiljohnsagun8452]

4:55 still confuses me, I mean, can we just use 'm' for both sides? Cause it still means multiple, right?

[@bibblybopbops441]

I'm coming from a Maths background, so bare in mind I'm new to this and could be wrong. However, in Maths it would be convention to label them differently due to them being different sets. You could have a different number of courses and users, but still have multiple of each. Therefore we are clarifying that these numbers can be different, where as if we just had both of them as M, there could be an implication that they are the same number.

[@professorposh4146]

What about Mandatory and Optional relationships?

[@louisecris8288]

what about the unique identifier or primary key of each entity?

[@oz1213-u4x]

Thanks a lot

[@ayilareese3655]

very helpful

[@yuvrajsingh-yn3xd]

Which geomatric shape is used to represent entity relationship in er diargram ?????

[@kangemanmaipmokiuah226]

MY 9minits not wasted

[@nanakworld]

coursera course brought me here UC Davis spec on SQL

[@yunzanhu1005]

Thanks

[@11111ally]

Small correction: since each course can have a varying number of lectures i.e. Kn, then under the "Lecture" entity box instead of n it should say Kn, and to the left of the "Lecture" entity box instead of n it should say (n x Kn) - since every user can watch a maximum of all the lectures in the n courses.

[@Muzaini42]

you make me love them , thx bro ^_^

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

Awesome!

[@RizalHilman]

Why use "n" when it can be represent as "m" ? N and M both mean "more than one" right?

[@raenastra]

What are primary and foreign keys?

[@elie3423]

Thanks !

[@aryaa3998]

that soundtrack at the beginning woke me up

[@ismailkapasi5670]

What is the difference between m and n, why is there n in one place and m in the other?

[@breakdancerQ]

I have this shit on school, thanks for making things clear. Still very much in period of hating these tho :p

[@padmaja3836]

I was from biology, physics, chemistry and math group in my school. I took the Information Technology course in university. No one explained this ER diagram very well and I used to hate it. I agree with this coach. I now understand it better. Thanks for the good video.

[@nadiasaud2636]

@ 2:50- wasn't that an example of many-to-one? many-to-one isn't listed among the types of cardinality. Can someone please help me understand this part better?

[@chryskou8893]

Can you please explain the attributes, that belong to relationships?

[@NorwalkAberdeen]

Hi, it's Don Hussey, the instructor. We don't use attributes on relationships nearly as often as we do on entities. But they're the same concept -- descriptors or data elements that are attached to the relationship. One example... Look at the ERD in 7:53. See the "Watches" relationship at the top-left of the diagram? Now imagine an attribute coming out of that called "In One Sitting". And for our purposes we can assume that's a Yes/No attribute that tells whether or not the User watches the Lecture in one sitting. It's an attribute of the *relationship* because it's not an attribute of the user. Neither is it an attribute of the lecture... It's an attribute of the interaction between the two. Let me know if this doesn't make sense. They're kind of wacky and seldom used.

[@chryskou8893]

Seventh Morning LLC Thank you very much,you really helped me a lot...

[@jennaprice5563]

Thank you this is really clear!

[@benjamindemontgomery6317]

good video should redo the voice when not having a cold, jea im subscribed very good content .

[@mahmoudkhalaf5162]

thanx alot

[@bridgetnolin3501]

informative

[@sahanbakmiwewa178]

Thanks :)

[@davka85]

OMG i got itttt

[@aidenluke4727]

you sounded like Haymitch in the Hunger Game movie. hehe

[@augustoliver351]

Hi. Is there many to one? Thanks.

[@ayushmandhar1418]

It's same as one to many. Both are same.