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ER: Identifying (Solid) Relationship

Solid line indicating an identifying relationship (child depends on parent for identity).

er-identifying-solid-relationship.mmd
erDiagram
  ORDER ||--|{ LINE_ITEM : contains
Output
ER diagram, Zombie Mermaid ORDER (no attributes) LINE_ITEM (no attributes) contains

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