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I’d like to display a repeating event on a date/time display in an app. This date time display can take the form of a calendar, but it could also just be a list of upcoming events.
What is the best way to handle tracking this event that can repeat?
For example: Should the event be stored once in the database and projected out / repeated several times in the display code? Should the event be stored several times and then just rendered?
I did something like this before and I based my schema off of SQL Servers sysschedules table.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178644.aspx
The schema linked above will allow you to store the schedule for a job (event). Then you can calculate what dates the event occurs on based off of the schedule. This may be a lengthy calculation, so I would try to cache that result somewhere.