Class::DBI Beginner's Guide question on Many to many entity relationship diagram

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From: Terrence Brannon
Subject: Class::DBI Beginner's Guide question on Many to many entity relationship diagram
Date: 16:28 on 21 Oct 2004
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I was taking a look at a Class::DBI tutorial:

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http://class-dbi.com/cgi-bin/wiki/index.cgi?BeginnersGuide

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and I don't understand one part of this diagram. Supposedly there is a
many to many relationship between artists and groups: an artist can have
many groups and a group can have many artists. But if this is the case,
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1/ why are the crow's feet not drawn from artistgroup to band?

2/ why is a 1-to-1 relationship between artist and band shown?

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