{"id":3024,"date":"2023-01-31T17:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T22:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2023-01-31T17:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T22:25:50","slug":"2a-erd-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/2023\/01\/31\/2a-erd-symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"2a &#8211; ERD Symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3025\" src=\"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/files\/2023\/01\/traditional-erd-example-300x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/files\/2023\/01\/traditional-erd-example-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/files\/2023\/01\/traditional-erd-example-768x491.png 768w, https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/files\/2023\/01\/traditional-erd-example.png 1010w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> ERD Symbols:<\/p>\n<p>Entity relationship diagrams rely on three main symbols, as well as connecting lines. Rectangles are meant to signify an entity, which is a business object, role, concept, or person. Diamonds represent how entities share information. Similarly, connecting lines show the relationships between entities. Finally, circles signify attributes of an entity, or characteristics of an entity. These symbols are similar to that of a swimlane, although they have different meanings. In a swimlane, a rectangle represents an action, a circle the start and end of a process, and a diamond a decision. It can be difficult to keep these similar shapes straight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERD Symbols: Entity relationship diagrams rely on three main symbols, as well as connecting lines. Rectangles are meant to signify an entity, which is a business object, role, concept, or person. Diamonds represent how entities share information. Similarly, connecting lines show the relationships between entities. Finally, circles signify attributes of an entity, or characteristics of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10531],"tags":[685722,7088,178],"class_list":{"0":"post-3024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-student-post","7":"tag-digital-identity","8":"tag-erd","9":"tag-mis","10":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}