39 39 votes Which one of the following is used to represent the supporting many-one relationships of a weak entity set in an entity-relationship diagram? Diamonds with double/bold border Rectangles with double/bold border Ovals with double/bold border Ovals that contain underlined identifiers Databases gatecse-2020 databases er-diagram one-mark + – Arjun 25.6k views answer comment Share Follow Print See all 5 Comments 5 5 Comments reply Show 2 previous comments Ashutosh mandal commented May 30, 2024 reply Follow flag Ans should be B 0 0 replyShare Mahoraga commented Sep 30, 2025 reply Follow flag why they make the wording of questions so weird 5 5 replyShare js__ commented Jan 3 reply Follow flag relationships deals with diamonds 2 2 replyShare Please log in or register to add a comment.
Best answer 75 75 votes Answer : $A$Weak entity relationships are represented by diamond with double/bold border whereas weak entity set is represented by Rectangles with double/bold border. Prashant. answered Feb 12, 2020 • edited Jan 1, 2025 by Shaik Masthan Prashant. comment Share Follow See all 4 Comments 4 4 Comments reply Franz Kafka commented Dec 20, 2023 reply Follow flag Option should be B, right ? Got it ! Please ignore 2 2 replyShare Kimo123 commented Feb 7, 2024 reply Follow flag __________correct answer is B , (A is just a typing mistake)____________ 0 0 replyShare Shaik Masthan commented Sep 2, 2024 reply Follow flag @Kimo123, Question is not about weak entity set. It's about weak Relationship.Hence, option A is correct. 6 6 replyShare Kshitij Sharma commented Nov 3, 2024 reply Follow flag No, It's A : 1 1 replyShare Please log in or register to add a comment.
20 20 votes weak entity set represented by Rectangles with double/bold border. weak entity relationships represented by Diamonds with double/bold border. Shaik Masthan answered Feb 12, 2020 Shaik Masthan comment Share Follow See 1 comment 1 1 comment reply Ankush Ranjan commented Jan 19, 2024 reply Follow flag weak entity relationships is also called identifying relationships 0 0 replyShare Please log in or register to add a comment.
5 5 votes Option A The entity sets which do not have sufficient attributes to form a primary key are known as weak entity sets and the entity sets which have a primary key are known as strong entity sets. Weak entity represented by rectangle double/bold border Identifying relationship represented with Diamond double /bold border 41 to 45 Ram Swaroop answered Feb 12, 2020 • edited Feb 12, 2020 by Ram Swaroop Ram Swaroop comment Share Follow 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
1 1 vote It is asking about the "many-one relationship" of a weak entity set..It's not asking about the Weak Entity Set itselt.So the answer would be B if they ask about Weak Entity set itself.As they asked about the RELATIONSHIP, It's Diamon with double/bold border.So, Option A is the correct.TIPS : READ THE QUESTION VERY CAREFULLY. Ultra_Instinct_AM answered Sep 21, 2025 Ultra_Instinct_AM comment Share Follow 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
