Relationship cardinality, Database Management System

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Cardinality shows the number of instances of an entity associated with another entity participating in a relationship. Depend on the cardinality binary relationship can be further dividing into the following categories:

  • One-to-one: An entity in A is related with at most one entity in B, and an entity in B is associated with at most one entity in A.

 

Example: Relationship between university/college and principal

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One college only have at the most one principal and one principal can be assigned to only one college.

Likewise we can define the relationship among Vice Chancellor and university.


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