Basic Terminologies in DBMS


☞ Following are the basic terms related to Relational database.

 
1. Entity / Relation 
2. Attributes 
3. Tuple 
4. Cardinality 
5. Degree 
6. Domain 
7. Body of the Relation 


Entity / Relation

☞ It is something that exists and about which we can store some information.

☞ It is the name of the table

Example : Student entity, employee entity


Attributes / Fields / Columns

☞ Each column in a table is known as attribute.


Tuple / Row / Record

☞ Each row in a table is known as tuple.


Cardinality

☞ It is the number of records.


Degree

☞ It is the number of attributes.


Domain

☞ It is the set of all possible values that an attribute may contain.


Body of the Relation

☞ It consists of an unordered set of 0 or more records/tuples.