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"

December 24, 2022 at 4:35 pm

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734522 More actions · Answer 1

Some hotels might have both, as descriptions sometimes change, but for purposes of infrastructure (electrical, plumbing, etc.) they often serialize or ID things. However, if there's only one, often it's a description.

Don't forget in many cases this system will be used by hotels in many places, so from monstrous casino hotels in Vegas with 100+ rooms/floor and over 1000 to the tiny hotels that have 2 floors and 20 rooms.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003875 More actions · Answer 2

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 3

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: 100950 More actions · Answer 4

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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