On 07.06.2011 09:57, Vincent Veyron wrote:
> Le lundi 06 juin 2011 à 12:59 +0200, Thomas Guettler a écrit :
>
>> how do you store recurring events in a database?
>>
>> Selecting all events in a week/month should be fast (comming from an index).
>>
>> My solution looks like this:
>>
>> Table event:
>>
>> Columns: id, name, recurring, start_datetime, end_datetime
>>
>> recurring is weekly, monthly, yearly or NULL.
>>
>
> Maybe you could try something like what is used in cron, the scheduling
> program for GNU/Linux
I know cron very well. But I need to get all events on day X between time1 and time2 very quickly.
If I build a crontab like table, I need to check all entries before I can
know which crontab lines get executed during this period.
Thomas
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