Posted by Trevor.D.Matthews on 09/19/05 08:20

I need to develop a scheduling app and am having trouble with the
database
design. I can easily design a table hold appointments with start and
finish
times, but I always have an issue when it comes time to searching for
free
time.

The search examples:
Find the first available appointment in September
Find the first afternoon appointment
etc...

Should appointments be linked similar to a linked list? Should I create
a
row for each 5 or 10 or 15 minute slice of the day for every day and
then
just search for null in a 'used' field? This could grow way to fast.

If you need a more specific example to understand I can provide that,
but I
wanted to keep this as short as possible.

If anyone has experience designing a scheduling DB then please post
your
expoeriences.

Thanks

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