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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Trouble with choosing the right words
Currently I'm working on describing a particular system for enrolling people into different kinds of meetings. Please imagine a company, which wants to send several of their employees for training. They reserve 8 spots for them, but don't send their names right away, but a week or so later, when they decide who has to take part in the training. And here lies the problem - I have to name two lists - one of them containing the name of the company and the number of reserved spots, and the second one with details regarding every single person which has to take part in the training. I named the first list "reservations", but how should I name the second one, as well as each entry? It has to be something short, is there any particularly suitable name for that in English? Perhaps enrollment?
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Anonymous I have to name two lists - one of them containing the name of the company and the number of reserved spots, Why is this a "list"? : 4 places etc.
- Anonymous I have to name two lists - one of them containing the name of the company and the number of reserved spots, Why is this a "list"?
- : 4 places etc.
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AnonymousI have to name two lists - one of them containing the name of the company and the number of reserved spots,Why is this a "list"? From your explanation, it seems as if it would be just a piece of information like "8 places reserved for ABC Ltd." Or do you mean it is like:
ABC Ltd.: 8 places
DEF Ltd.: 3 places
XYZ Ltd.: 4 places
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Technically speaking it's a database table. You have entries like you said in one table:
1. ABC Ltd.: 8 places
2. DEF Ltd.: 3 places
3. XYZ Ltd.: 4 places
Please note the numbers in front - these identify the reservation. Then you have a second table:
1. John Someone
1. Tim Someone-Else
[...6 more records...]
1. John Taylor
[...6 more records..
1. ABC Ltd.: 8 places
2. DEF Ltd.: 3 places
3. XYZ Ltd.: 4 places
Please note the numbers in front - these identify the reservation. Then you have a second table:
1. John Someone
1. Tim Someone-Else
[...6 more records...]
1. John Taylor
[...6 more records..
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Unfortunately for sake of simplicity I've failed to mention that a table with this name is already in use. You can imagine that a company which hosts these training sessions would love to know something about frequent participants, and their data is actually held separately (so when they, for example, fix their misspelled name, you only have to update it once and not for every entry related to the
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