基于时间戳的MySql插入查询（延迟插入）

Question

i need to do delayed mysql insert into my database based on the time choosen.

Example: Timestamp choosen = "2013-04-03 10:12:00"

so i want my insert query to get executed at this ("2013-04-03 10:12:00") particular time.

$qry = mysql_query("INSERT INTO table (field) value ($value)");

i am having a mysql innoDB database.

and i will be accepting this timestamp value from user from a HTML+PHP interface.

and yes, i dont want to do cron jobs

Answer 1

No option without cron job...

You need a cron job setup for every minute , in which the query is looking for any matching timestamp for the insert query.

But for every minute cron job is not better for DB health if you have more and more data to insert, you should think again about the time interval for better performance.

Answer 2

You could insert data into additional table, then use MySQL events to copy records into target table at exact time. For example -

CREATE EVENT event1
  ON SCHEDULE AT '2013-04-03 20:00:00'
  DO 
BEGIN
  INSERT INTO <table> SELECT * FROM <temp table>;
  TRUNCATE TABLE <temp table>;
END

Using the Event Scheduler .