Question

I am task with designing a database for online bookings.

I am not looking for a full design as we have had previous exp with online house rental.

What i would like to know, is how do we design a db for booking of hotel, travel, events.

We have some ideas.

Basics…

Have all venues/ events (once/reoccuring) register. That seems like the static data.

But how do i manage a hotel with 100+ rooms?

I am kinda stumped.

Any recommedations would be helpfull, or just thoughts on how i should approach this idea.

I want to design a prototype in acces to show the investor the design, but plan to do the backend in sql 2005/ 2008

Answer 1

Break the architecture down into the smallest unit you can book. If you are booking rooms, then you could do something along these lines:

Hotel
Name Location HotelID etc.

Rooms
HotelID RoomID Capacity etc.

Client
ClientID Name Address etc.

ClientBooking
ClientID RoomID StartDate EndDate etc.