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Entity means a specific thing in both database work and data modeling. An entity is data that can be classified, and has a relationship with other classified data, as in entities.

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What is difference between object and entity?

A database object is represented as one of the following: database, schema, table, column, primary key, and foreign key A database Entity is: An entity is a thing or object of importance about which data must be captured. All things aren't entities - only those about which information should be captured. Information about an entity is captured in the form of attributes and/or relationships. If something is a candidate for being an entity and it has no attributes or relationships, it isn't an entity. Database entities appear in a data model as a box with a title. The title is the name of the entity.


How we can develop a database?

First of all u must khow for what u want to create DBMS. you must create Mini world and select some entities and distinguish their attributes. For khowing more about entities,attributes and their relations i suggest u read this book: Fundamental of database system written by: Ramez Elmasri & shamkant B. Navathe


Enter on the database or in the database?

We would use in rather than on. Data is stored in a database, not on a database. Data is entered into a database not onto a database.


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