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| <h1>Defining Application Queries<a class="headerlink" href="#defining-application-queries" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> |
| <p>Let’s try the query-first approach to start designing the data model for |
| a hotel application. The user interface design for the application is |
| often a great artifact to use to begin identifying queries. Let’s assume |
| that you’ve talked with the project stakeholders and your UX designers |
| have produced user interface designs or wireframes for the key use |
| cases. You’ll likely have a list of shopping queries like the following:</p> |
| <ul class="simple"> |
| <li>Q1. Find hotels near a given point of interest.</li> |
| <li>Q2. Find information about a given hotel, such as its name and |
| location.</li> |
| <li>Q3. Find points of interest near a given hotel.</li> |
| <li>Q4. Find an available room in a given date range.</li> |
| <li>Q5. Find the rate and amenities for a room.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>It is often helpful to be able to refer |
| to queries by a shorthand number rather that explaining them in full. |
| The queries listed here are numbered Q1, Q2, and so on, which is how they |
| are referenced in diagrams throughout the example.</p> |
| <p>Now if the application is to be a success, you’ll certainly want |
| customers to be able to book reservations at hotels. This includes |
| steps such as selecting an available room and entering their guest |
| information. So clearly you will also need some queries that address the |
| reservation and guest entities from the conceptual data model. Even |
| here, however, you’ll want to think not only from the customer |
| perspective in terms of how the data is written, but also in terms of |
| how the data will be queried by downstream use cases.</p> |
| <p>You natural tendency as might be to focus first on |
| designing the tables to store reservation and guest records, and only |
| then start thinking about the queries that would access them. You may |
| have felt a similar tension already when discussing the |
| shopping queries before, thinking “but where did the hotel and point of |
| interest data come from?” Don’t worry, you will see soon enough. |
| Here are some queries that describe how users will access |
| reservations:</p> |
| <ul class="simple"> |
| <li>Q6. Lookup a reservation by confirmation number.</li> |
| <li>Q7. Lookup a reservation by hotel, date, and guest name.</li> |
| <li>Q8. Lookup all reservations by guest name.</li> |
| <li>Q9. View guest details.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>All of the queries are shown in the context of the workflow of the |
| application in the figure below. Each box on the diagram represents a |
| step in the application workflow, with arrows indicating the flows |
| between steps and the associated query. If you’ve modeled the application |
| well, each step of the workflow accomplishes a task that “unlocks” |
| subsequent steps. For example, the “View hotels near POI” task helps |
| the application learn about several hotels, including their unique keys. |
| The key for a selected hotel may be used as part of Q2, in order to |
| obtain detailed description of the hotel. The act of booking a room |
| creates a reservation record that may be accessed by the guest and |
| hotel staff at a later time through various additional queries.</p> |
| <img alt="../_images/data_modeling_hotel_queries.png" src="../_images/data_modeling_hotel_queries.png" /> |
| <p><em>Material adapted from Cassandra, The Definitive Guide. Published by |
| O’Reilly Media, Inc. Copyright © 2020 Jeff Carpenter, Eben Hewitt. |
| All rights reserved. Used with permission.</em></p> |
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