1. The company is organized into departments and each department has a unique name and main office. The department has a particular employee who manages the department. We should keep track of the date when that person started managing the department. We should also keep track of all of the offices that are assigned to the department. Each office has a building name, room number and a telephone.

2. Nouns = possible data items (only the first occurrence is highlighted)

3. The company is organized into departments and each department has a unique name and main office. The department has a particular employee who manages the department. We should keep track of the date when that person started managing the department. We should also keep track of all of the offices that are assigned to the department. Each office has a building name, room number and a telephone.

4. A department controls a number of projects, each of which has a unique number within the company. Each project also has a description, employee who serves as its director, and budget. The company also wants to keep track of all employees who are assigned to each project.

5. We want to keep track of each employee’s name. social security number, address, salary, sex, birthdate, and starting date of employment with the company. Each employee belongs to a department but may work on projects that are controlled by departments other than the one to which he or she is assigned. We also want to keep track of the number of hours each employee has worked on each project

6. Data Items Found (= Entities or Attributes) department (department) name (department) main office employee (department) manager date started managing department offices (office) building

7. (office) room (office) telephone project (project) number (project) description (project) budget (project) director

8. (employee) name social security number address salary sex birthdate starting date (of employment) number of hours worked

9. Verb phrases = possible relationships

10. The company is organized into departments and each department has a unique name and main office. The department has a particular employee who manages the department. We should keep track of the date when that person started managing the department. We should also keep track of all of the offices that are assigned to the department. Each office has a building name, room number and a telephone.

11. A department controls a number of projects, each of which has a unique number within the company. Each project also has a description, employee who serves as its director, and budget. The company also wants to keep track of all employees who are assigned to each project.

12. We want to keep track of each employee’s name, social security number, address, salary, sex, birthdate, and starting date of employment with the company. Each employee belongs to a department but may work on projects that are controlled by departments other than the one to which he or she is assigned. We also want to keep track of the number of hours each employee has worked on each project

13. department has a name. department has a main office. employee manages a department offices are assigned to a department office has a building name office has a room number office has a telephone

14. department controls a project project has a unique number project has a description project has an employee employee who serves as director project has a budget employee is assigned to a project.

15. employee has a name employee has a social security number employee has a address employee has a salary employee has a sex employee has a birthdate employee has a starting date of employment employee belongs to a department employee works on projects

16. projects are controlled by departments employee worked on a project

17. Modeling Principles: Use common form for all synonyms nouns suggest either entities or attributes possessive or“has a” often designates an attribute other verb phrases often designate relationships

18. Draw Entities

19. EMPLOYEE

20. SSN

21. EMPLOYEE SSN Name

22. EMPLOYEE Address SSN Name

23. EMPLOYEE AddressSalary SSN Name

24. EMPLOYEE AddressSalary Sex SSN Name

25. EMPLOYEE AddressSalary Sex Birthdate SSN Name

26. EMPLOYEE AddressSalary Sex Birthdate SSN Startdate Name

27. EMPLOYEE AddressSalary Sex Birthdate SSN Startdate Name DEPARTMENT

28. EMPLOYEE AddressSalary Sex Birthdate SSN Startdate Name DEPARTMENT Name

29. EMPLOYEE AddressSalary Sex Birthdate SSN Startdate Name DEPARTMENT Name Main Office

30. EMPLOYEE AddressSalary Sex Birthdate SSN Startdate Name DEPARTMENT Name Main Office Building

31. EMPLOYEE AddressSalary Sex Birthdate SSN Startdate Name DEPARTMENT Name Main Office BuildingRoom

32. EMPLOYEE AddressSalary Sex Birthdate SSN Startdate Name DEPARTMENT Name Main Office BuildingRoomPhone

33. EMPLOYEE AddressSalary Sex Birthdate SSN Startdate Name DEPARTMENT Name Main Office BuildingRoomPhone Office BuildingRoomPhone

34. EMPLOYEE AddressSalary Sex Birthdate SSN Startdate Name DEPARTMENT Name Main Office BuildingRoomPhone Office BuildingRoomPhone

35. PROJECT

36. Number

37. PROJECT Description Number

38. PROJECT Description BudgetNumber

39. Draw Relationships (attributes are omitted for clarity)

40. BelongsTo EMPLOYEEDEPARTMENT

41. BelongsTo EMPLOYEEDEPARTMENT Manages

42. BelongsTo EMPLOYEEDEPARTMENT Manages StartDate

43. BelongsTo EMPLOYEEDEPARTMENT PROJECT Manages StartDate Controls

44. BelongsTo EMPLOYEEDEPARTMENT PROJECT Manages StartDate Directs Controls

45. BelongsTo EMPLOYEEDEPARTMENT PROJECT Manages StartDate WorksOn Controls Directs

46. BelongsTo EMPLOYEEDEPARTMENT PROJECT Manages StartDate WorksOn Controls Hours Directs

47. Specify Attributes and Domains

48. AttributeDomainData TypeConstraints Employee.NameEmpNameDomStringMax length 40 SSNSSNDomString###-##-#### AddressAddressDomStringMax length 60 SalaryInteger  0 Sex{M,F} BirthdateDate Employee.StartdateDate Department.NameDeptNameDomStringMax length 15 MainOfficeOfficeDom (Building, Room, Phone) OfficeSet of OfficeDom BuildingBuildingDomStringMax length 10 RoomRoomDomStringMax length 3

49. AttributeDomainData TypeConstraints PhonePhoneDomString###-###-#### NumberProjectNumDomInteger  0 DescriptionProjDescDomStringMax length 40 BudgetInteger Manager.StartDateDate WorksOn.HoursInteger  0