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Message       Goofie           Post subject: Optimal database-design? help 
pleasePosted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:59 am                        
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Location: Belgium              I want to convert a one-dimensional excell "on 
call" list to a database.

I can think of ways that could help, but i'm hoping for a 'perfect 'fit, with 
all  logic in the database and not in RB-code.

Let me try to explain what i want to accomplish:
Every day of the year, there is a first responder, second responder and third 
responder (obligatory), fourth and fifth responder can be on holiday.
The team consists of five responders. First has the "highest" workload, then 
second, etc.

I was thinking of a table design with columns:
TABLE WORKLOAD: pk, date, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, holiday (I 
worked out holiday to be of type set, since more than one person can be on 
holiday)

Can i use "set" to distribute the other values between first, second and third, 
you can only be one at a time
Do you have to use an elaborate sql-query on each insert, or let REAL do al the 
math to see if an entry in a record is valid, or can i leave the logic to the 
database?   
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