Showing posts with label E-R diagram with entity duplication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label E-R diagram with entity duplication. Show all posts

Monday, 4 February 2013

Why is allowing this redundancy a bad practice that one should avoid whenever possible?

Q) Consider an E-R diagram in which the same entity set appears several times. Why is allowing this redundancy a bad practice that one should avoid whenever possible?


Answer: By using one entity set many times we are missing relationships in the model.