David,
I have another solution working (not using data base persistence, but
the idea is the same).
We have the next run time saved along with the original cron-tab string,
which is left as it is (not broken down to any details). The system
polls for the earliest "next runtime", and executes the a
I was thinking on how one would design an optimal (performance-wise)
database of large number of schedules with crontab-like semantic. There
will potentially be hundreds of thousands or even millions of "crontab"
entries, and there will be a query run once every minute to determine
which entrie