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I want to create a small database for my inventory but I have some problems on picking a structure. The inventory will be updated daily at the end of the day. The problem I am facing is the following. I have a table for my products, having an. id, name, price, quantity.
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create table product (id integer primary key,name varchar(100) not null,price decimal(6,2) not null,inventory integer not null...Jul 1, 2016 · 9. It depends, inventory systems are about far more than just counting items. For example, for accounting purposes, you might need to know accounting value of inventory based on FIFO (First-in-First-out) model. That can't be calculated by simple "totaling inventory received - total of inventory sold" formula.
- I have seen both approaches at my current company and would definitely lean towards the first (calculating totals based on stock transactions). If...
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- both are valid, depending on the circumstances. The former is best when the following conditions hold: the number of items to sum is relatively sm...
- It's important to consider the existing system and the cost and risk of changing it. I work with a database that stores inventory kind of like your...
- I think this is actually a general best-practices question about doing a (relatively) expensive count every time you need a total vs. doing that co...
- I would opt for the first way, where. the quantity on hand is calculated totaling inventory received - total of inventory sold. The Right Way, IM...
- I've worked on systems that solve this problem before. I think the ideal solution is a precomputed column, which gets you the best of both worlds....
- Django-inventory geared more to fixed assets, but might give you some ideas. IE: ItemTemplate (class) -> ItemsOnHand (instance). ItemsOnHand can...
- I can see some benefit to having the two columns, but I'm not following the part about discrepancies - you seem to be implying that having the two...
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Apr 5, 2017 · Table structure for inventory management in MySQL. Asked 13 years ago. Modified 7 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 15k times.
Aug 10, 2011 · 3. I'm working on a transactional inventory system for our e-commerce company, and I'm looking for some sort of a guide or tutorial on how to accomplish this with a MySQL database. There's guides on how to program, and guides on how to USE such systems, but I've been unable to locate a resource with suggested table structures or best practices ...
Mar 24, 2009 · 3. Your setup is wrong, you should not have a separate table for trash, checked-out, and resharpen-bin. These are merely states that the tool can be found. What you want is a database that includes these 2 tables that will house the data proposed by HardCode in his solution: Inventory. -----.
Mar 23, 2013 · I want to make a relational database system for a local computer hardware non-profit. There are two inter-related features that I want to figure out how to implement. First, we need to manage our inventory of parts, and second, we need to track donations of computer systems as they come into us, and also as we grant them out.
Jul 7, 2011 · I'm looking to design an inventory database that tracks a snack bar. As this would be a single person/computer access and need to be easily movable to another system, I plan to use SQLite as the DB engine. The basic concept is to track inventory bought from a wholesale warehouse such as Sams Club, and then keep track of the inventory.
