4 votes 4 votes Consider the following ER diagram: The minimum number of tables required to represent $M, N, P, R_1, R_2$ is 2 3 4 5 Databases ugcnetcse-dec2013-paper3 databases er-diagram + – go_editor asked Jul 29, 2016 • edited Jan 15, 2023 by gatecse go_editor 2.5k views answer comment Share Follow See all 4 Comments See all 4 4 Comments reply LeenSharma commented Jul 29, 2016 reply Follow Share https://gateoverflow.in/390/gate2008_82-83 1 votes 1 votes Sanjay Sharma commented Jul 29, 2016 reply Follow Share official ans was A 2 3 votes 3 votes Prashant. commented Jul 29, 2016 reply Follow Share question is out of my mind since weak relation then how can be strong entity everywhere. 1 votes 1 votes Bharti goyal commented Jun 30, 2018 reply Follow Share I think 3 is the correct answer 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
3 votes 3 votes Minimum three table Required. MR(M1,M2,M3,P1), P(P1,P2), N(P1,N1,N2). M1 is PK of table MR. P1 is the PK of table P and {P1,N1} is the primary key of N. Arnab Bhadra answered May 23, 2017 Arnab Bhadra comment Share Follow See all 4 Comments See all 4 4 Comments reply reena_kandari commented Jul 5, 2017 reply Follow Share I agree 0 votes 0 votes Prashant. commented Jul 5, 2017 reply Follow Share Now the question is correct. Answer is given answer according to that. 0 votes 0 votes reena_kandari commented Jul 5, 2017 reply Follow Share Answer is still 3,But I don't know how official answer is 2.Arjun sir also answered this question with 3 tables needed. 0 votes 0 votes Rams B commented Jun 12, 2018 reply Follow Share I found the following explanation for A. as the answer to this question: Since R1 is many to one and participation of M is total, M and R1 can be combined to form the table {M1, M2, M3, P1}. N is a week entity set, so it can be combined with P. 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.