Author: Sudip Sengupta

Sudip is a TOGAF Certified Solutions Architect with more than 15 years spent in the IT industry. He is now a full-time freelance technical writer and has contributed to several publications on various topics including the cloud, DevOps, SaaS, and cybersecurity. When not reading or writing, he is found playing a game of chess or in a squash court.

Explaining an ER Diagram, With Steps and Use Cases

Get to know what an ER Diagram is through use cases and examples. Explore the notations for the essential components of an ERD. Entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs) are used to visualize data and relationships among the entities of a system. At its core, an ER Diagram explains the logical structure and the flow of information within a data model. To do so, an entity-relationship diagram highlights entities, attributes, and relationships through predefined symbols for effective visualization of the architecture.

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