HELP needed with an ERD
 

How would I draw an ERD for a situation like this:

professors can teach the same course in several semesters, and each offering must be recorded.

If I know that:

Professorss can have an SSN and courses can have a courseid.

Any helpful suggestions are welcome.

Re: HELP needed with an ERD
 

We'd be happy to help, but we don't want to do all the work for you. Can you show us what you have so far?

To help you out, four entities should be sufficient to track the information in your post.

Re: HELP needed with an ERD
 

Here is your data dictionary:

Staff

    SSN (Primary Key)

    Other staff data



Course

    CourseID (Primary Key)

    Other Course Data



TaughtCourse (this is important, you need a link table)

   CourseID (Foreign Key)

   SSN (Foreign Key

   Other details (e.g when, where, notes)

The link table is needed as you cant basically have a many to many relationship between staff and courses. It just doesnt work like that.

In my example, one Staff can have many TaughtCourse (one staff member can teach many groups) and each Course may be taught many times to many different groups. However, one group can only be a part of oe course.

So its a ONE staff <- may teach -> MANY TaughtCourse
and ONE ToughtCourse < - can have -> MANY Course

Re: HELP needed with an ERD
 

Thanks jbennet, I had something similar in mind.

Re: HELP needed with an ERD
 

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