Suggest some better ways that this information could be stored. Exercise 1-2 A s

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Suggest some better ways that this information could be stored. Exercise 1-2 A small library keeps a roster of who will be at the desk each day. They have a database table as shown in Figure 1-8. week start Mon TueWed Thur Fri 17/10/2011 Jane Sue George Sue Jane 4/10/2011 Jane SueLinda Sue Lee 31/10/2011 Sue Sue George George Figure 1-&. An initial database table to record roster duties What problems can you foresee in making good use of this information? Suggest some better ways that this information could be stored commando

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Problem: it would be a tedious task to find out who was on the desk on a particular date given this structure.

Solution: What we should do instead is save the date, attendant_name and a boolean that tells us whether that day was monday or not.

Data Types:

Date : date

Attendant_name : string

IsMonday : boolean

Roster(Date, AttendantName, IsMonday)

This way we would be able to identify the person on duty using the date with utmost ease.

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