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Creating an ER Diagram from the Sakila Database

Setup

You should already have MySQL installed from last week but if you don't, please install it now.

Instructions

Disable Binary Logging (Google Cloud)

We need to alter a setting in our cloud database in order to import the dataset that we need. This setting has to do with "triggers" which we have not learned about directly but that you will look for more practice with later.

  1. Navigate to cloud.google.com and make sure you are logged in.

  2. Navigate to your SQL instance (Cloud SQL)

  3. Under the "configuration" tab on the right side of your screen, select "edit configuration"

  4. Under "Enable auto backups" DESELECT "Enable Point-in-Time Recovery"/"enable binary logging"

  5. Save and restart the instance

Import data

We are going to use a sample schema given to use by MySQL.

  1. Download the zip directory and extract it
  1. cd into that directory
  • Likely cd ~/Downloads/sakila-db
  1. Run the connect command followed by < sakila-schema.sql to load that database
  • mysql -u root -h <HOST IP FROM WORKBENCH> -p < sakila-schema.sql

  1. After the operation is complete (may take a couple mins) you should have automatically been exited from the mysql command

  2. Pull up MySQL Workbench so that we can work with a familiar interface

  3. You should see an "sakila" database on the left hand side

  4. Double-click that database

  5. Open a new query and run select * from actor;

  6. Did you see any data? If not that's ok. The schema is more important here

  7. You should see many tables under this database

Create ER Diagram

  1. With MySQL Workbench open, click the "Database" tab

  2. Select "Reverse Engineer"

  3. Make sure your connection information is correct and then click "continue"

  4. Under "Select the schemas you want to include:" chose "sakila"

  5. DESELECT everything except "Import MySQL Table Objects"

  6. Click "Execute"

  7. You should see a pretty comprehensive ER diagram consisting of 16 tables

  8. Answer the following questions about this diagram

ER Diagram Diagnosis
  1. What is the relationship between the "actor" and "film_actor" tables?

One “actor” to one or many “film_actor”.

  1. What does the blue diamond next to the "last_update" column on the "inventory" table represent?

It is a blue line filled diamond. That makes it a NOT NULL simple attribute.

  1. How many foreign keys does the "payments" table have? How can you tell?

It has three. Two are red colored filled diamond. That makes those NOT NULL Foreign Keys. It has one filled red diamond that means it can be null.

ER Diagram upload

  1. Take a screenshot of the ER diagram you created and name it "wk6_er_diagram"

  2. Copy the screenshot to this directory and upload it (git push) along with this README