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What is an Entity set?

It is a collection of all entities of particular entity type in the database.

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What is an Extension of entity type?

The collections of entities of a particular entity type are grouped together into an entity set.

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What is Weak Entity set?

An entity set may not have sufficient attributes to form a primary key, and its primary key compromises of its partial key and primary key of its parent entity, then it is said to be Weak Entity set.

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What is an attribute?

It is a particular property, which describes the entity.

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What is a Relation Schema and a Relation?

A relation Schema denoted by R(A1, A2, …, An) is made up of the relation name R and the list of attributes Ai that it contains. A relation is defined as a set of tuples. Let r be the relation which contains set tuples (t1, t2, t3, ..., tn). Each tuple is an ordered list of n-values t=(v1,v2, ..., vn).