Database Systems 6th Edition by Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant B. Navathe

Exercise 6

Consider an entity type SECTION in a UNIVERSITY database, which describes the section offerings of courses. The attributes of SECTION are SectionNumber, Semester, Year, CourseNumber, Instructor, RoomNo (where section is taught), Building (where section is taught), Weekdays (domain is the possible combinations of weekdays in which a section can be offered {MWF, MW, TT, etc.}). Assume tat SectionNumber is unique for each course within a particular semester/year combination (that is, if a course if offered multiple times during a particular semester, its section offerings are numbered 1, 2, 3, etc.). There are several composite keys for SECTION, and some attribute sare components of more than one key. Identify three composite keys, and show how they can be represented in an ER schema diagram.