Best way to store working hours and query it efficiently

I'm planning t开发者_JS百科o store working hours for shops. I'm wondering what might be the best modeling for the working hours field so that I can get a list of open/closed shops at the current moment in very efficient way.

To store normal operation hours, you would need to store a number of records containing:

• Shop - INTEGER
• DayOfWeek - INTEGER (0-6)
• OpenTime - TIME
• CloseTime - TIME

I assume for example that each shop has reduced hours during national holidays, or has plant shutdowns, so you would also need to store some override records:

• Shop - INTEGER
• OverrideStartDate - DATE
• OverrideEndDate - DATE
• DayOfWeek - INTEGER (0-6)
• AltOpenTime - TIME
• AltCloseTime - TIME
• Closed - INTEGER (0, 1)

To find open shops is trivial, but you also need to check if there are override hours:

SELECT Shop
FROM OverrideHours
WHERE OverrideStartDate <= NOW()
AND OverrideEndDate >= NOW()
AND DayOfWeek = WEEKDAY(NOW())

If there are any record returned, those shops have alternate hours or are closed.

There may be some nice SQL-fu you can do here, but this gives you the basics.

EDIT

I haven't tested this, but this should get you close:

SELECT Normal.Shop
FROM Normal
LEFT JOIN Override
ON Normal.Shop = Override.Shop
AND Normal.DayOfWeek = Override.DayOfWeek
AND NOW() BETWEEN Override.OverrideStartDate AND Override.OverrideEndDate
WHERE Normal.DayOfWeek = WEEKDAY(NOW())
AND ((Override.Shop IS NULL AND TIME(NOW()) BETWEEN Normal.OpenTime AND Normal.CloseTime)
 OR  (Override.Shop IS NOT NULL AND Override.Closed <> 1 AND TIME(NOW()) BETWEEN Override.AltOpenTime AND Override.AltCloseTime))

EDIT

As for efficiency, it is efficient in the sense that you only have to make one call to MySQL which is often a bottleneck if it is across a network. You'll have to test and see whether this performs to your specifications. If not, you may be to play with some indices.

EDIT

Testing. Not complete testing, but some.

mysql> select * from Normal;
+------+-----------+----------+-----------+
| Shop | DayOfWeek | OpenTime | CloseTime |
+------+-----------+----------+-----------+
|    1 |         1 | 09:00:00 | 17:00:00  | 
|    1 |         5 | 09:00:00 | 16:00:00  | 
|    2 |         1 | 09:00:00 | 17:00:00  | 
|    2 |         5 | 09:00:00 | 17:00:00  | 
+------+-----------+----------+-----------+
4 rows in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> select * from Override;
+------+-------------------+-----------------+-----------+-------------+--------------+--------+
| Shop | OverrideStartDate | OverrideEndDate | DayOfWeek | AltOpenTime | AltCloseTime | Closed |
+------+-------------------+-----------------+-----------+-------------+--------------+--------+
|    2 | 2010-12-01        | 2010-12-31      |         1 | 09:00:00    | 18:00:00     |      0 | 
|    2 | 2010-12-01        | 2010-12-31      |         5 | 09:00:00    | 18:00:00     |      0 | 
|    1 | 2010-12-01        | 2010-12-31      |         1 | 09:00:00    | 17:00:00     |      1 | 
+------+-------------------+-----------------+-----------+-------------+--------------+--------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SET @whenever = TIMESTAMP('2010-11-23 16:05');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT WEEKDAY(@whenever);
+--------------------+
| WEEKDAY(@whenever) |
+--------------------+
|                  1 | 
+--------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT Normal.Shop FROM Normal LEFT JOIN Override ON Normal.Shop = Override.Shop AND Normal.DayOfWeek = Override.DayOfWeek AND @whenever BETWEEN Override.OverrideStartDate AND Override.OverrideEndDate WHERE Normal.DayOfWeek = WEEKDAY(@whenever) AND ((Override.Shop IS NULL AND TIME(@whenever) BETWEEN Normal.OpenTime AND Normal.CloseTime)  OR  (Override.Shop IS NOT NULL AND Override.Closed <> 1 AND TIME(@whenever) BETWEEN Override.AltOpenTime AND Override.AltCloseTime));
+------+
| Shop |
+------+
|    1 | 
|    2 | 
+------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SET @whenever = TIMESTAMP('2010-11-23 17:05');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT Normal.Shop FROM Normal LEFT JOIN Override ON Normal.Shop = Override.Shop AND Normal.DayOfWeek = Override.DayOfWeek AND @whenever BETWEEN Override.OverrideStartDate AND Override.OverrideEndDate WHERE Normal.DayOfWeek = WEEKDAY(@whenever) AND ((Override.Shop IS NULL AND TIME(@whenever) BETWEEN Normal.OpenTime AND Normal.CloseTime)  OR  (Override.Shop IS NOT NULL AND Override.Closed <> 1 AND TIME(@whenever) BETWEEN Override.AltOpenTime AND Override.AltCloseTime));
Empty set (0.01 sec)

mysql> SET @whenever = TIMESTAMP('2010-12-25 16:05');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT Normal.Shop FROM Normal LEFT JOIN Override ON Normal.Shop = Override.Shop AND Normal.DayOfWeek = Override.DayOfWeek AND @whenever BETWEEN Override.OverrideStartDate AND Override.OverrideEndDate WHERE Normal.DayOfWeek = WEEKDAY(@whenever) AND ((Override.Shop IS NULL AND TIME(@whenever) BETWEEN Normal.OpenTime AND Normal.CloseTime)  OR  (Override.Shop IS NOT NULL AND Override.Closed <> 1 AND TIME(@whenever) BETWEEN Override.AltOpenTime AND Override.AltCloseTime));
+------+
| Shop |
+------+
|    2 | 
+------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SET @whenever = TIMESTAMP('2010-11-23 17:05');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT WEEKDAY(@whenever);
+--------------------+
| WEEKDAY(@whenever) |
+--------------------+
|                  1 | 
+--------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT Normal.Shop FROM Normal LEFT JOIN Override ON Normal.Shop = Override.Shop AND Normal.DayOfWeek = Override.DayOfWeek AND @whenever BETWEEN Override.OverrideStartDate AND Override.OverrideEndDate WHERE Normal.DayOfWeek = WEEKDAY(@whenever) AND ((Override.Shop IS NULL AND TIME(@whenever) BETWEEN Normal.OpenTime AND Normal.CloseTime)  OR  (Override.Shop IS NOT NULL AND Override.Closed <> 1 AND TIME(@whenever) BETWEEN Override.AltOpenTime AND Override.AltCloseTime));
Empty set (0.00 sec)

Let's consider all opening hours are the same every week. So what about following table:

• shop_id - INTEGER (or any unique identifier of the shop)
• week_day - INTEGER (0=Monday - 6=Sunday)
• opens_at - TIME (use your local timezone)
• closes_at - TIME (use your local timezone)

Make a table for shops identified by shop_id and then insert the opening hours, i.e:

• 1, 0, 8:00, 17:00
• ...
• 1, 5, 8:00, 12:00
• 2, 0, 7:30, 12:30
• 2, 0, 13:30, 17:30
• 2, 1, 7:30, 12:30
• 2, 1, 13:30, 17:30
• ...

and then SELECT:

SELECT shop_id
FROM opening_hours
WHERE WEEKDAY(NOW()) = week_day
AND TIME(NOW()) BETWEEN opens_at AND closes_at