Where are your domain experts? You *are* consulting with them, no?
If you don't know the answers, and don't have access to domain experts to help you, I
would design for the most general case, and factor out exceptions as they prove to be so.
"Pre-optimization" for exceptions almost always turns out to be a bad choice.
> From: Tompkins Neil <neil.tompkins@stripped>
>
> .... Am
> I best using the following pattern
>
> (1) Default rates/rooms stored in a generic table
> (2) Any exceptions/changes/closed days to the daily rates are store in
> a separate table.
> (3) Any special offer exceptions are stored as a rule
>
> All, should I consider that for any hotel, for any room, for any day I have
> a record in a huge single table ???
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