[AccessD] A noun is a person place or thing - what is an Event?

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Mon May 27 22:52:43 CDT 2013


One possibility is to include an EventType column, with one value
identifying company events such as the annual picnic and another value
identifying employee events. Depending on that value, you could switch the
rowsource of the combobox to suit. Both types of events could reside in a
single table, with queries identifying one type or the other. Just a
thought.

Arthur


On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:22 PM, William Benson (VBACreations.Com) <
vbacreations at gmail.com> wrote:

> I realize I have used "latter approach" kind of ambiguously in the "latter"
> sentence.
>
>
> LOL    (Lots of Latters)...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Benson (VBACreations.Com) [mailto:vbacreations at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 11:20 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: A noun is a person place or thing - what is an Event?
>
> Hi this may well be long-ago-covered ground, but I am stuck in a relational
> database conundrum.
>
> Simple world, there are companies, they have associates (people), those
> people have events, and those events require notification circles.
>
> For example, a driver for a trucking company, may have a medical
> inspection,
> notification of the due date for which, is to be sent to the trucker as
> well
> as the company's dispatcher (so that, after a certain date, the dispatcher
> will remember not to send that trucker on any routes without proof of
> completed medical check).
>
> I am struggling over whether to make all events tied to the company with a
> FK, or whether to make all events tied to an Associate, thus only
> indirectly
> tied to the Company.
>
> The reason for my second-guessing the latter approach, which on the face of
> things seems obvious, is scalability. Suppose there are certain kinds of
> events which are not related to associates, but based on the company
> itself.
> I can't think of too many of examples of these off-hand, but for example,
> certain marketing oriented events, or billing related events, might be
> worth
> tracking.
>
> If I chose the other approach, to work at a Company level, create an Event
> for that company, then choose the Associate(s) for whom the Event mattered,
> then it seems all bases would be covered.
>
> Am I right in leaning towards the latter approach?
>
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