D_Format Attributes

Attribute/Logical Rolename	Domain	Datatype	NULL	Definition
id		NUMERIC(8, 0)	NO	A cross reference code to indicate this particular dictionary entry
name		VARCHAR(80)	YES	Descriptive name
family		NUMERIC(8, 0)	NO	This field is used by the data decoder to describe the data family type. It tells a potential program what general algorithm to use to decode the associated data. Each algorithm requires some number of decoder keys that contain special additional information, enabling the algorithm to decode the data
ms_id		NUMERIC(8, 0)	NO	This attribute denotes a code indicating the encoding format. This number is assigned by the FDSN Data Exchange Working Group

D_Format Keys

Key Name	Key Type	Keys
D_F00	PrimaryKey	id

D_Format Relationships

Parent Relationships:

Entity Name

Type

Cardinality

Business Name

VerbPhrase

InversePhrase

Foreign Keys

Is Supertype

Child Relationships:

Entity Name	Type	Cardinality	Business Name	VerbPhrase	InversePhrase	Foreign Keys	Is Subtype
Channel_Data	Non-Identifying	One To Zero or More					NO
D_Format_Data	Identifying	One To Zero or More					NO

D_Format Check Constraints

Check Constraint Name

CheckConstraint