What's the difference in notation for total participation and recursive relation?
问题 Does the double line in the following ER diagrams means total participation or recursive relation? Could anyone tell me the notation difference for both? 回答1: Total Participation: Every entity in the set is involved in some association (or tuple) of the relationship. Recursive Relationship: An entity set relating to itself. Most commonly in recursive relationships they indicate the different types of roles an entity can have (e.g., the different ways it can participate) in a relationship by