Check whether the time slot is availble?

We face the problem to do some time based or reservation , to check whether the time slot is available or not.

This script will help to do it better and quicker.


Declare @mytable table (id int,fromtime smalldatetime,totime smalldatetime)

insert into @mytable values (1,'2009-08-20 08:00:00','2009-08-20 12:00:00')


if not exists (select 'x' from @mytable where '2009-08-20 07:00:00' between fromtime and totime)
begin

print 'Insert statement'

End