From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
Cc: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, pgsql general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [SQL] Flight numbers data
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:12:16 +0100
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On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:50 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > Has anyone from the postgresql camp ever solved such a problem?
>
> Where I work, we're building a middle level system (look up the website
> that goes with my domain). And if we weren't in the airline reservation
> industry, we couldn't afford the data sets.
>
> > It is just that i wanna do it right, maybe play a little bit with AJAX
> > also who knows :)
>
> But "doing it right" goes against almost every tenet of the airline
> reservation industry :) haha. only serious.
Yeh, IATA don't have a normalised data model, so you're badly out of
luck there.
There are some reasonable books on Data Modelling from Wiley you can get
with fair models in, plus Kimball has a simplified data model in his
Toolkit book.
I'd make sure you get your requirements straight, otherwise the data
model will grow and grow as each new strange-but-true wierdness emerges.
Best Regards, Simon Riggs
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