Consider the ER diagram of Figure 7.20, which shows a simplified schema for an airline reservations system. Extract from the ER diagram the requirements and constraints that resulted in this schema. Try to be as precise as possible in your requirements and constraints specification.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

(1) The database represents each AIRPORT, keeping its unique AirportCode, the AIRPORT Name, and the City and State in which the AIRPORT is located.

(2) Each airline FLIGHT has a unique number, the Airline for the FLIGHT, and the Weekdays on which the FLIGHT is scheduled (for example, every day of the week except Sunday can be coded as X7).

(3) A FLIGHT is composed of one or more FLIGHT LEGs (for example, flight number
CO1223 from New York to Los Angeles may have two FLIGHT LEGs: leg 1 from New York to Houston and leg 2 from Houston to Los Angeles). Each FLIGHT LEG has a DEPARTURE AIRPORT and Scheduled Departure Time, and an ARRIVAL AIRPORT and Scheduled Arrival Time.

(4) A LEG INSTANCE is an instance of a FLIGHT LEG on a specific Date (for example, CO1223 leg 1 on July 30, 1989). The actual Departure and Arrival AIRPORTs and
Times are recorded for each flight leg after the flight leg has been concluded. The
Number of available seats and the AIRPLANE used in the LEG INSTANCE are also kept.

(5) The customer RESERVATIONs on each LEG INSTANCE include the Customer Name, Phone, and Seat Number(s) for each reservation.

(6) Information on AIRPLANEs and AIRPLANE TYPEs are also kept. For each AIRPLANE
TYPE (for example, DC-10), the TypeName, manufacturing Company, and
Maximum Number of Seats are kept. The AIRPORTs in which planes of this type
CAN LAND are kept in the database. For each AIRPLANE, the AirplaneId, Total number of seats, and TYPE are kept.