What are Entities and Relationships?

Entities: Entity can be a person, place, thing, or any identifiable object for which data can be stored in a database.

For example: In a company’s database, employees, projects, salaries, etc can be referred to as entities.

Relationships: Relationships between entities can be referred to as the connection between two tables or entities.

For example: In a college database, the student entity and department entities are associated with each other.