Entities and Attributes

Entity

Object in the real world

Attributes

Describe each entity

Entity set

Group of similar entities (share same attributes)

Attribute domain

Values that can be used for the attribute

Key

Minimal set of attributes that uniquely identify an entity

Primary key

Designated among a number of candidate keys

The books entity set

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