Working in Entity Relationship Diagrams

Entity relationship diagrams graphically display a submodel of the data pattern.

Entity relationship diagrams show a submodel of the data pattern. Entities are shown as nodes and relationships are shown as edges.

The user can choose the notation they want in Options.

• Chen

  Notation according to Peter Pin-Shan Chen with (min,max) cardinalities

• DSA

  Notation in accordance to data structure analysis

• James Martin

  Notation in accordance with James Martin, Bachmann and Odell (also know as "crow’s foot" notation)

• SERM

  Notation in accordance with structured entity relationship modeling from Prof. Dr. Elmar J. Sinz

• IDEF1X

  Notation in accordance with IDEF1X standard (U.S. authority standards FIPS 184)

• UML

  Notation in accordance with Unified Modeling Language