Re: E/R modeling: relationship's attributes

Sticky Bit wrote:
> Hello,
> In Chen's Entity/relationship model, relationships too can have attributes.
>
> How should I represent these relationships in a database? In my view, if I
> represent these relationships' attributes as fields in a table, the
> relationship becomes a relation: an entity...

If the relationship has no attributes but is a many-to-many relationship it also might be implemented as a relation. Whether you call that "becomes an entity" or not is only a matter of definition and has no practical consequence or relevance.

• Jan Hidders