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Holidays!

Hello,

The company I work for recently splashed out on a linux machine to run a web
server in our office. The primary aim was a simple Intranet for the two
sites we work across. I thought it'd be fun to automate our current
holidaying system (We're strictly paper based at the moment), by putting a
booking system on the Intranet pages so staff could book them through that.
I'm sure I don't have to explain other benefits to list readers :-)

I've created a few database driven resources for this, but I'm a bit stumped
on a holiday one. What would the best way be to lay a database out for
this? Any links to online resources would be great. The way I'm thinking
of at the moment is having each day as a row in a table, then a csv style
field with employee numbers. Example:

Day Staff Off On This Day
1 1,6
2 1,2
3 4
..
..

Would this be acceptable, or is there a better way?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.
Jul 19 '05 #1
2 3006

One thing to consider: how will you query the data out of the tables?
What kind of reports do you want to create? Keep that in mind so you
don't "paint yourself into a corner" later. :)

You might consider using a one to many structure:

Employees
=========
EmpID
Name

Holidays
=========
ID
EmpId
Date

To get all the employees on a certain day, use the DATE as your WHERE
clause.

To get a list of all the days an employee has been off, use the EmpId,
and sort by Date.

Hope that helps,
John
Mr Balloon wrote:
Hello,

The company I work for recently splashed out on a linux machine to run a web
server in our office. The primary aim was a simple Intranet for the two
sites we work across. I thought it'd be fun to automate our current
holidaying system (We're strictly paper based at the moment), by putting a
booking system on the Intranet pages so staff could book them through that.
I'm sure I don't have to explain other benefits to list readers :-)

I've created a few database driven resources for this, but I'm a bit stumped
on a holiday one. What would the best way be to lay a database out for
this? Any links to online resources would be great. The way I'm thinking
of at the moment is having each day as a row in a table, then a csv style
field with employee numbers. Example:

Day Staff Off On This Day
1 1,6
2 1,2
3 4
.
.

Would this be acceptable, or is there a better way?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

Jul 19 '05 #2

One thing to consider: how will you query the data out of the tables?
What kind of reports do you want to create? Keep that in mind so you
don't "paint yourself into a corner" later. :)

You might consider using a one to many structure:

Employees
=========
EmpID
Name

Holidays
=========
ID
EmpId
Date

To get all the employees on a certain day, use the DATE as your WHERE
clause.

To get a list of all the days an employee has been off, use the EmpId,
and sort by Date.

Hope that helps,
John
Mr Balloon wrote:
Hello,

The company I work for recently splashed out on a linux machine to run a web
server in our office. The primary aim was a simple Intranet for the two
sites we work across. I thought it'd be fun to automate our current
holidaying system (We're strictly paper based at the moment), by putting a
booking system on the Intranet pages so staff could book them through that.
I'm sure I don't have to explain other benefits to list readers :-)

I've created a few database driven resources for this, but I'm a bit stumped
on a holiday one. What would the best way be to lay a database out for
this? Any links to online resources would be great. The way I'm thinking
of at the moment is having each day as a row in a table, then a csv style
field with employee numbers. Example:

Day Staff Off On This Day
1 1,6
2 1,2
3 4
.
.

Would this be acceptable, or is there a better way?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

Jul 19 '05 #3

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