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What do you understand by the terms entity, entity type, and entity set in dbms?

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What do you understand by the terms entity, entity type, and entity set in dbms?..

Answer / Mohit Chandra Joshi

In a Database Management System (DBMS), an Entity represents anything that can be meaningfully described within the database. An Entity Type is a collection of entities having common properties. An Entity Set is a collection of all entities of a specific entity type.

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