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About Entity Relationship Diagrams

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An Entity Relationship Diagram (or ERD) illustrates the relationships between and among "entities."  Entities are the tables used in a relational database.

Attributes are properties or characteristics of entities.

An ERD attribute can be denoted as a primary key (which identifies a unique attribute), or an attribute can be denoted as a foreign key (which can be assigned to multiple attributes).