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Movie Database

This database features two entities (movies and actors) in a many-to-many relation. Each entity has its own table. A third table, casting , is used to link them. The relationship is many-to-many because each film features many actors and each actor has appeared in many films.

movie

Field name Type Notes
id INTEGER An arbitrary unique identifier
title CHAR(70) The name of the film - usually in the language of the first release.
yr DECIMAL(4) Year of first release.
director INT A reference to the actor table.
budget INTEGER How much the movie cost to make (in a variety of currencies unfortunately).
gross INTEGER How much the movie made at the box office.

Example

idtitleyrdirectorbudgetgross
10003"Crocodile" Dundee II19883815800000239606210
10004'Til There Was You19974910000000

actor

Field name Type Notes
id INTEGER An arbitrary unique identifier
name CHAR(36) The name of the actor (the term actor is used to refer to both male and female thesps.)

Example

idname
20Paul Hogan
50Jeanne Tripplehorn

casting

Field name Type Notes
movieid INTEGER A reference to the movie table.
actorid INTEGER A reference to the actor table.
ord INTEGER The ordinal position of the actor in the cast list. The

star of the movie will have ord value 1 the co-star will have

value 2, ...

Example

movieidactoridord
10003204
10004501