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Exercise 2.6 Computer Sciences Department frequent fliers
have been complaining to Dane County Airport officials about
the poor organization at the airport. As a result, the officials
decided that all information related to the airport should be
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organized using a DBMS, and you have been hired to design
the database. Your first task is to organize the information
about all the airplanes stationed and maintained at the
airport. The relevant information is as follows:
Every airplane has a registration number, and each airplane
is of a specific model.
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The airport accommodates a number of airplane models,
and each model is identified by a model number (e.g., DC10) and has a capacity and a weight.
A number of technicians work at the airport. You need to
store the name, SSN, address, phone number, and salary of
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each technician.
Each technician is an expert on one or more plane
model(s), and his or her expertise may overlap with that of
other technicians. This information about technicians must
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also be recorded.
Traffic controllers must have an annual medical
examination. For each traffic controller, you must store the
date of the most recent exam.
union. You must store the union membership number of
each employee. You can assume that each employee is
uniquely identified by a social security number.
Figure 2.9 ER Diagram for Exercise 2.5
The airport has a number of tests that are used periodically
to ensure that airplanes are still airworthy. Each test has a
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) test number, a name,
and a maximum possible score.
The FAA requires the airport to keep track of each time a
given airplane is tested by a given technician using a given
test. For each testing event, the information needed is the
date, the number of hours the technician spent doing the
test, and the score the airplane received on the test.
1. Draw an ER diagram for the airport database. Be sure to
indicate the various attributes of each entity and relationship
set; also specify the key and participation constraints for
each relationship set. Specify any necessary overlap and
covering constraints as well (in English).
2. The FAA passes a regulation that tests on a plane must be
conducted by a technician who is an expert on that model.
How would you express this constraint in the ER diagram? If
you cannot express it, explain briefly
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The relational schema of the airport database is as follows:
Employees (ssn, union_mem_number)
Plane (Reg_number)
Traffic_control (exam_date)
Model (model_number, capacity, weight)
Test (FFA_NUM, name, score)
Technician (salary, name, address, ph_number)
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Step 2 of 3
The ER diagram for the airport database is as follows:
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The constraints specified in the question cannot be
expressed in the ER diagram due to following reasons:
• There is a covering constraint on the Employees ISA
hierarchy because all airline employees belong to a union.
• The expert technician constraint that FAA requires cannot
be specified in the ER diagram.
• The relations type and expert are equivalent. But this
constraint cannot be specified in the ER diagram as there is
no equivalence notation in the ER diagram.
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