Single/multi-valued attributes In addition to being simple or composite, an attribute can also be single-valued or multi- valued (see Section 11.3.2). Most attributes encountered will be single-valued, but occasionally a multi-valued attribute may be encountered; that is, an attribute that holds multiple values for a single entity occurrence. For example, we may identify the attribute telNo (the telephone number) of the Client entity as a multi-valued attribute. On the other hand, client telephone numbers may have been identified as a separate entity from Client. This is an alternative, and equally valid, way to model this. As we will see in Step 2.1, multi-valued attributes are mapped to relations anyway, so both approaches produce the same end-result.