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It provides useful concepts that allow us to move from an informal description of what users want from their database to amore detailed and precise, description that can be implemented in a DBMS.  \nEven though the ER model describes the physical database model, it is basically useful in the design and communication of the logical database model.  \n3.2 Overview of Database Design  \nOur primary focus is the design of the database. The database design process can be divided into six steps:  \nRequirements Analysis  \nThe very first step in designing a database application is to understand what data is to be stored in the database, what applications must be built on the database, and what operations must be performed on the database. In other words, we must find out what the users want from the database. This process involves discussions with user groups, a study of the current operating environment, how it is expected to change an analysis of any available documentation on existing applications and so on.  \nConceptual Database Design  \nThe information gathered in the requirement analysis step is used to develop a high-level description of the data to be stored in the database, along with the conditions known to hold this data. The goal is to create a description of the data that matches both—how users and developers think of the data (and the people and processes to be represented in the data) . This facilitates discussion among all the people involved in the design process i.e., developers and as well as users who have no technical background. In simple words, the conceptual database design phase is used in drawing ER model.  \nLogical Database Design  \nWe must implement our database design and convert the conceptual database design into a database schema (a description of data) in the data model (a collection of high-level data description constructs that hide many low-level storage details) of the DBMS. We will consider only relational DBMSs, and therefore, the task in the logical design step is to convert the conceptual database design in the form of E-R Schema (Entity-Relationship Schema) into a relational database schema.  \nSchema Refinement  \nThe fourth step in database design is to analyze the collection, of relations (tables) in our relational database schema to identify future problems, and to refine (clear) it.  \nPhysical Database Design  \nThis step may simply involve building indexes on some tables and clustering some tables, or it may involve redesign of parts of the database schema obtained from the earlier design steps.  \nApplication and Security Design  \nAny software project that involves a DBMS must consider applications that involve processes and identify the entities.  \n3.3 Entities, Attributes and Entity Sets  \nEntity: An entity is an object in the real world that is distinguishable from other objects.  \nEntity set: An entity set is a collection of similar entities. The Employees entity set with attributes ssn, name, and lot is shown in the following figure.  \nAttribute: An attribute describes a property associated with entities. Attribute will have a name and a value for each entity.  \nDomain: A domain defines a set of permitted values for an attribute  \nEntity Relationship Model: An ERM is a theoretical and conceptual way of showing data relationships in software development. 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