Question

A case competitions database:You work for a firm that has decided to sponsor case competitions between teams of college business students, and you were put in charge of creating a database to keep the corresponding data. The firm plans to hold about dozens of different regional competitions at various dates that will take place at different branches around the country. For each competition, you need to store a name, date, and the name of the branch where it is going to take place. For each college that has agreed to participate in the competition, you need to store the college name, a contact phone number, and a contact address. Each college can participate in only one competition, and the database should know which competition each college is participating in. On the other hand, each college is allowed to send more than one team to its competition. Each team gives itself a name and a color, and consists of several students of the same college; for each student, you want to store a first name, last name, date of birth, major, and expected graduation date. Question: How many tables do you need

Answer 1

We will ned (4) four tables.

Step-by-step explanation:

For the given scenario we will have to build a relational database. The database will have four tables i.e. Competation, Collage, Team and student.

For each table the database fields are mention below. Note that foreign keys are mentioned in itallic.

Competition:

Competition_ID, Competition_Name, Competition_Data, Competition_Name _of_Branch, College_ID

Collage:

Collage_ID, Collage_Name, Collage_Contact, Collage_address

Team:

Name, Color, Team_ID, College_ID, Competition_ID

College:

Student_ID, First_Name, Last_Name, Date_of_Birth, Major, Expected_Gradiuation_Date, Collage_ID, Team_ID, Competation_ID