RE: Normalization was Left AS/400 and Returned

An option to consider that hasn't been explicitly mentioned...

Encapsulate the I/O to the data in a service program.

Have the service program load a static array the first time any procedure in 
the service program is called.

Now it really doesn't matter how the data is stored.  Instead of a program 
chaining to a file to find out if a particular day is a workday or loading it's 
own array, you'd call IsAWorkday(date).

You could even have procedures that returned an array for an entire week, month 
or year if needed.  But more useful perhaps would be a procedure in the service 
program like GetWorkdays(fromDate, howMany) that returned an array of dates.

Just my .02

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:08 AM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Normalization was Left AS/400 and Returned
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> 
> And I understand your preference.  Checking every date by 
> doing a CHAIN
> or SETLL on a file is easy.  I think part of my bias is that 
> I come from
> a scheduling background, which means I need information for periods,
> rather than single days.  I might have to schedule an operation to run
> over 10 days, and thus I'll have to know all the working days.  By
> reading a one-year array once, I'm covered and I can schedule all the
> work for that item.
> 
> With a one-record per date approach, I'll be doing lots of 
> I/O, over and
> over again (unless I read the data from the file into an 
> array, at which
> point your argument about how hard it is becomes moot).
> 
> I guess my point is that I think you need to look not only at the data
> but also at how it is used when determining the normalization of a
> database.
> 
> Joe
> 
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