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Step 1: Determine the entity groups
Entity groups are generally course-grained entities that have children, grand children, and so forth, and they are
commonly used in queries. This example chooses these entity groups:
DescriptionEntity group
This group uses the customer identity along with orders and order
details as the children.
Customer
This group uses product details along with the associated supplier
information.
Product
Step 2: Identify the tables in each entity group
Identify the tables that belong to each entity group. In this example, entity groups use the following tables.
TablesEntity group
Customers
Customer
Orders
Shippers
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