Chapter 4 Building Conceptual Data Models

Defining a specifying entity attribute

You define a specifying entity attribute only in the case of parent only generation. In a PDM the specifying attribute differentiates occurrences of each child. There are several ways to create a specifying attribute:

• From a data item used as a specifying attribute
• From the specifying attribute list for an inheritance

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