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The document outlines an assignment to design a database for Dane County Airport to organize information about airplanes, technicians, traffic controllers, and testing procedures. It specifies the required attributes for each entity, including airplane models, technician expertise, and testing events, and tasks the designer with creating an ER diagram to represent these relationships. Additionally, it mentions a regulatory constraint that tests must be conducted by technicians who are experts on the specific airplane model.

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Assignment 1 - 2025

The document outlines an assignment to design a database for Dane County Airport to organize information about airplanes, technicians, traffic controllers, and testing procedures. It specifies the required attributes for each entity, including airplane models, technician expertise, and testing events, and tasks the designer with creating an ER diagram to represent these relationships. Additionally, it mentions a regulatory constraint that tests must be conducted by technicians who are experts on the specific airplane model.

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ASSIGNMENT 1

Deadline: 23rd April 2025


Computer Sciences Department frequent fliers have been complaining to Dane County Airport
officials about the poor organization at the airport. As a result, the officials decided that all
information related to the airport should be organized using a DBMS, and you have been hired
to design the database. Your first task is to organize the information about all the airplanes
stationed and maintained at the airport. The relevant information is as follows:

Every airplane has a registration number, and each airplane is of a specific model.

✓ The airport accommodates a number of airplane models, and each model is identified
by a model number (e.g., DC-10) and has a capacity and a weight.
✓ A number of technicians work at the airport. You need to store the name, SSN, address,
phone number, and salary of each technician.
✓ Each technician is an expert on one or more plane model(s), and his or her expertise
may overlap with that of other technicians. This information about technicians must
also be recorded.
✓ Traffic controllers must have an annual medical examination. For each traffic controller,
you must store the date of the most recent exam.
✓ All airport employees (including technicians) belong to a union. You must store the
union membership number of each employee. You can assume that each employee is
uniquely identified by a social security number.
✓ The airport has a number of tests that are used periodically to ensure that airplanes are
still airworthy. Each test has a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) test number, a
name, and a maximum possible score.
✓ The FAA requires the airport to keep track of each time a given airplane is tested by a
given technician using a given test. For each testing event, the information needed is the
date, the number of hours the technician spent doing the test, and the score the
airplane received on the test.

1. Draw an ER diagram for the airport database. Be sure to indicate the various attributes of
each entity and relationship set; also specify the key and participation constraints for each
relationship set. Specify any necessary overlap and covering constraints as well (in English).

2. The FAA passes a regulation that tests on a plane must be conducted by a technician who is
an expert on that model. How would you express this constraint in the ER diagram? If you
cannot express it, explain briefly.

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