Concept:
Cut
Headline
Cut the salaries of employees in half
Description
For a given company, the salaries of all employees are to be cut in half. Let's assume that the management of the company is interested in a salary cut as a response to a financial crisis. Clearly, any real company is likely to respond to a financial crisis in a much less simplistic manner.
Motivation
The feature may be implemented as a transformation, potentially making use of a suitable transformation or data manipulation language. Conceptually, the feature corresponds to a relatively simple and regular kind of transformation, i.e., an iterator-based transformation, which iterates over a company' employees and updates the salaries of the individual employees along the way. It shall be interesting to see how different software languages, technologies, and implementations deal with the conceptual simplicity of the problem at hand.
Illustration
The feature is illustrated with a statement in Language:SQL to be applied to an instance of a straightforward relational schema for companies where we assume that all employees belong to a single company:
UPDATE employee
SET salary = salary / 2;
The snippet originates from Contribution:mySqlMany.
Relationships
- See Feature:Total for a query scenario instead of a transformation scenario.
- In fact, Feature:Total is likely to be helpful in a demonstration of Feature:Salary cut.
- The present feature should be applicable to any data model of companies, specifically Feature:Flat company and Feature:Hierarchical_company.
Guidelines
- The name of an operation for cutting salaries thereof should involve the term "cut". This guideline is met by the above illustration, if we assume that the shown SQL statement is stored in a SQL script with name "Cut.sql". Likewise, if OO programming was used for implementation, then the names of the corresponding methods should involve the term "cut".
- A suitable demonstration of the feature's implementation should cut the salaries of a sample company. This guideline is met by the above illustration, if we assume that the shown SQL statement is executed on a database which readily contains company data. Queries according to Feature:Total may be used to compare salaries before and after the cut. All such database preparation, data manipulation, and query execution should preferably be scripted. By contrast, if OO programming was used, then the demonstration could be delivered in the form of unit tests.
Ralf Lämmel
edited this article at
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 20:22:11 +0200
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