Recurring events

Hi,

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.

end_datetime can be NULL (open end).

Can you create an indexed view with infinite rows? I only want to index
the last three year and the next three years.

An other solution would be to fill a table with "serialized" events. The recurring
events would be created and inserted into a table. This can only be done in a time frame
like above (last three year, next three years). If a recurring event gets altered,
all its serialized events need to be updated.

Any feedback?

Thomas Güttler

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