CSE :: Database System 2 - CS
- An entity is something that can be identified in the user's work environment; something that the users want to track.
- In a 1:N relationship, the parent is the entity on the one side of the relationship and the child is the entity on the N side of the relationship.
- A maximum cardinality is the maximum number of entity instances that can participate in a relationship instance.
- An entity class is a collection of entities and is described by the structure of the entities in that class.
- A recursive relationship is a relationship between an archetype and an instance of that archetype.