Re: [GENERAL] help modeling a schedule system

2010-10-05 Thread Scott Ribe
Well, when I did something similar a very long time ago, I put a "next time to fire" column in the table. Each time an event is fired, the application updates that column. Was a lot simpler than baroque searches for events that would need firing between the last check and now. Was a lot cleaner

[GENERAL] help modeling a schedule system

2010-10-05 Thread chris h
I'm not sure if this is the correct list for this, but I'm hoping to get some help with a data model I'm struggling with. Let me know if this should be elsewhere! :) We have an event schedule system that basically tells an event handler when an event should be fired, and keeps a history of fired