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Asked: 2026-06-17T15:34:21+00:00

I’m using ASP.NET MVC4 and SQL Server 2008. I’ve got a business requirement that

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I’m using ASP.NET MVC4 and SQL Server 2008.

I’ve got a business requirement that requires equipment to be service after X amount of time. Different equipment items require different amounts of lengths of time before servicing.

In the database, I need to store the period in which equipment needs to be serviced, as well as the next service date.

On the equipment edit screen, I need a dropdown box with options to allow the user to select a ServiceInterval. It would actually be preferable not to have a fixed dropdown with times, but I’m not sure how else to do this.

  • 3 Months
  • 6 Months
  • 9 Months
  • 1 Year
  • 1.5 years
  • 2 years
  • 3 years
  • 4 years
  • 5 years

Clicking on a “Serviced” button should Add the ServiceInterval to the current date and put that in the NextServiceDue field.

What is the best way to store this information, and is there a good way to do this?

Thank you,
Mike

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  1. Editorial Team

    It depends on what level of granularity you want, but you create a table in the database with the name and the number of seconds or days.

    From there, when the user selects the item, just date DateTime.Now.AddDays(userInput); or DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(userInput);. You can store the interval period along with the serviceable item as well.

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