DotCom Tools operates a small business that specializes in hard-to-find woodwork

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DotCom Tools operates a small business that specializes in hard-to-find woodworking tools. The firm advertises in various woodworking magazines, and currently accepts mail and telephone orders. DotComis planning a Web site that will be the firm’s primary sales channel. The site will feature an online catalog, powerful search capabilities, and links to woodworking information and resources. DotCom has asked you, an IT consultant, whether a set of codes would be advantageous and if so, what codes you would suggest. Provide at least two choices for a customer code and at least two choices for a product code. Be sure to describe your choices and provide some specific examples. Also include an explanation of why you selected these particular codes and what advantages they might offer.

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Advantages of using codes with the firm:

1.Alphabet code 2.Significant code.

1.Alphabetic codes: Since the company DotCom accepts the orders through mail and telephone they need to maintain a database containing all users information like name,address,telephone number,email address,Address of delivery.

While storing the address of the customer we can use the Alphabetic codes to save the state name such as NY for New York or OR AL for Alaska etc(These codes are specifically called Abbreviation codes),This can be used to easily identify the state name rather than taking the entire state name

2.Significant code:While saving the sutomer code we need to save the pincode in order to do that we can use the significant codes in the database that if the user is from a particular place we can easily identify his zip code,this thus saves a lot of space and time while data retrival from the database.

I hope that solves your problem.HAPPY ANSWERING!!!!!!!!!

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