About: Room Reservation System
Team members:
- Nikola Sarafimov 223091
Short description:
The Room Reservation System is a database-oriented project whose main goal is to design and implement a structured relational database for managing room reservations in an organization or institution. The database will store information about rooms, users, reservations, time intervals, and user roles. It will support core operations such as searching for available rooms, creating reservations, updating reservation data, and preventing overlapping bookings.
If the project were to be further developed, it would represent a complete room reservation management system that could be used by educational institutions, companies, or organizations that need to efficiently manage shared spaces such as classrooms, meeting rooms, or offices. The emphasis of the project is on correct database design, integrity constraints, consistency of data, and SQL-based data manipulation, rather than on complex user interface development. The system is designed to clearly separate responsibilities between different user roles and ensure reliable reservation management.
Detailed description of the project:
The Room Reservation System is intended to be owned and operated by an organization or institution, such as a university, company, or administrative body, that provides room reservation services to its employees, staff, or members. The organization is responsible for maintaining the database and offering the reservation functionality as an internal service.
The main problem addressed by this project is the inefficient and error-prone management of room reservations when handled manually or through unstructured tools. Such approaches often lead to scheduling conflicts, double bookings, and lack of transparency regarding room availability and reservation history. By introducing a centralized relational database, these issues are minimized through enforced constraints and structured data management.
The system supports different types of users. Regular users can search for available rooms and create reservations for specific dates and time intervals. Administrators have extended privileges, including managing room information, overseeing reservations, and modifying or canceling existing reservations when necessary.
Although similar room reservation systems already exist, this project focuses specifically on demonstrating a clean and well-structured database design that follows academic principles of database normalization, integrity constraints, and transactional consistency. The solution is tailored for educational purposes and emphasizes correctness and clarity over feature complexity.
The system is designed as a database-oriented application and can serve as the backend for a web-based or desktop application. The primary focus, however, remains on the database layer and its proper design and implementation.
