Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD)
noun
say it: “EE-ar-DEE” /ˌiː ɑːr ˈdiː/
A picture of a database showing its tables as boxes and the relationships between them as lines.
What is Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD)?
Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) — A picture of a database. Each table is a box listing its columns, and lines join tables that are related through their keys, such as Orders to Customers. It shows the whole design at a glance.
In a sentence
- “The ERD showed that every order points to one customer through CustomerID.”
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