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This question contains a brief UoD that provides contextual information regarding a system or organisation. You will need to create an Entity Relational (ER) diagram, or Extended Entity Relational (EER) diagram based on the UoD. If the UoD is unclear regarding specific aspects of the brief you may note assumptions on your ER diagram. However, please beware that your assumptions must not conflict with or violate any aspects of the UoD. On a large online retail platform, different users can log in using their unique identifiers and shop for various items. Each of these items comes with a unique identification code, name, price, and detailed description. Users, apart from their unique identifiers, also provide their name, email, and shipping address. These users can make multiple purchases on different dates, with each transaction assigned an identification code unique to the user, along with recording the date of the transaction and the total cost. Each transaction can consist of one or more items, and the same item could be part of various transactions made by the same or different users.

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This question contains a brief UoD that provides contextual information regarding a system or organisation. You will need to create an Entity Relational (ER) diagram, or Extended Entity Relational (EER) diagram based on the UoD. If the UoD is unclear regarding specific aspects of the brief you may note assumptions on your ER diagram. However, please beware that your assumptions must not conflict with or violate any aspects of the UoD. On a large online retail platform, different users can log in using their unique identifiers and shop for various items. Each of these items comes with a unique identification code, name, price, and detailed description. Users, apart from their unique identifiers, also provide their name, email, and shipping address. These users can make multiple purchases on different dates, with each transaction assigned an identification code unique to the user, along with recording the date of the transaction and the total cost. Each transaction can consist of one or more items, and the same item could be part of various transactions made by the same or different users.

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Based on the given description, the following entities and relationships can be identified:

Entities:

  1. User (Attributes: User_ID, Name, Email, Shipping_Address)
  2. Item (Attributes: Item_ID, Name, Price, Description)
  3. Transaction (Attributes: Transaction_ID, User_ID, Date, Total_Cost)

Relationships:

  1. User can make multiple Transactions (One-to-Many relationship between User and Transaction)
  2. Each Transaction can consist of one or more Items (Many-to-Many relationship between Transaction and Item)

The Many-to-Many relationship between Transaction and Item can be resolved by introducing a new entity, say Transaction_Item, which will have Transaction_ID and Item_ID as its attributes. Both of these attributes together will form the primary key of this entity.

So, the final entities and relationships will be:

Entities:

  1. User (Attributes: User_ID, Name, Email, Shipping_Address)
  2. Item (Attributes: Item_ID, Name, Price, Description)
  3. Transaction (Attributes: Transaction_ID, User_ID, Date, Total_Cost)
  4. Transaction_Item (Attributes: Transaction_ID, Item_ID)

Relationships:

  1. User can make multiple Transactions (One-to-Many relationship between User and Transaction)
  2. Each Transaction can consist of one or more Items (One-to-Many relationship between Transaction and Transaction_Item)
  3. Each Item can be part of one or more Transactions (One-to-Many relationship between Item and Transaction_Item)

Please note that in the above schema, User_ID in Transaction is a foreign key referencing User, Transaction_ID in Transaction_Item is a foreign key referencing Transaction, and Item_ID in Transaction_Item is a foreign key referencing Item.

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