Hello,
I'm working on using a temporary table to get the group-wise maximum for
a number of items. I have a table structure like:
CREATE TABLE item (
item_id int not null primary key,
name varchar(100) not null);
CREATE TABLE attribute_a (
index (item_id, time_id),
item_id int not null,
time
If you give this due consideration, you may find that a lot of your
problem evaporates and the rest gets simpler to handle.
Just a general observation made by a disinterested third party; ignore it
if you like :-)
Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Ian Klassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
n't that important and could be
omitted with no important loss of functionality?
If you give this due consideration, you may find that a lot of your
problem evaporates and the rest gets simpler to handle.
Just a general observation made by a disinterested third party; ignore it
if you like
>close the store and want to take a full inventory we first run a report
> >that get the sums of all the transactions for each product and that tells
> >us what should be on the shelf according to the database. Then we verify
> >or adjust the qty for each product on the shelf b
abase. Then we verify
or adjust the qty for each product on the shelf by adding a record to the
transaction log indicating the quantity and the type of transaction that
occurred.
When we want to see the values in the inventory its a very simple report
to get the sums for each product.
- Ho
s the way I would do it.
What you think?
mpneves
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 18:09, Ian Klassen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to figure out a solution to the following problem.
>
> Let's say I have a store with various products. I take inventory of these
> pr
Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out a solution to the following problem.
Let's say I have a store with various products. I take inventory of these
products on different days. At any given time I want to view what the
inventory is for the entire store. I also want to know whether the
inventory
