How do I query to exclude the "first position of a 3 digit number"

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How do I query to exclude the "first position of a 3 digit number"

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004635 More actions · Answer 1

Room names are a human manifestation. There's absolutely no reason why they cannot have a room number. Hotels have also been know to change room names. If you have a room number for the given space, history can continue without interruption.

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aaron.reese SSChampion Points: 13498 More actions · Answer 2

I hope none of are proposing using the meeting room name as a primary key on the rooms table. They are always subject to change....

Doubt you will find many meeting rooms called Michael Jackson, Jimmy Saville or Gary Glitter. My daugters school has just renamed most of it's houses because the old names have links to the slave trade....

ScottPletcher SSC Guru Points: 101200 More actions · Answer 3

You likely should encode the room name for internal use -- I'd probably call it "room_code" -- but you'll need at least a smallint, and I'd probably just "byte" the bullet and use an int, to be safe in the future. Since you would never want to reuse a previous room code, a major remodeling might use up a bunch of codes.

The customers should never see the room_code. They should only see the "room number", which could be a name ("Lincoln", "Sunshine", etc.) or a number (904 (floor 9, room 4), 105, etc.). That part follows what most hotels do, I believe.

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