This isn't really a Perl question, but there's plenty of database people here...

One thought is to use a table like this, where e_id is the employee id, i_id is the interviewee id ( assuming separate tables for employees and interviewees, with a primary key ), and the time period is a reference to a time slice. Let's say further that if an employee is unavailable, you schedule a 'dummy' interview with a special interviewee called 'Unavailable' ( id 0 below ). This lets you avoid having to have entries for every possible time slice. The assumption is that employees are available more often than not - otherwise, change 'Unavailable' to 'Available' and test accordingly.
 
e_id  i_id   time_period
-------------------------
 122  204    4
 104  0      6
 122  114    1
 194  0      2
 194  0      3

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In this example, employee 122 has interviews in time segments 1 and 4 ( perhaps 8:30-9:00 and 10:00 - 10:30 ), and employee 194 is unavailable from 9:00 to 10:00.

Does that help?

In reply to Re: Interview scheduleing in a database by FamousLongAgo
in thread Interview scheduleing in a database by hardburn

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