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Reading E-R Diagrams

You read the diagrams first from left to right and then from right to left. In the case of the name-address relationship in Figure 14, you read the relationships as follows: names can be associated with zero or exactly one address; addresses can be associated with zero, one, or many names.

Figure 14. Reading an Entity-Relationship Diagram
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