How to send reminder notifications to subscribers for renewal from SQL Server 2005?

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Published on 2010-03-28T09:03:48Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 9:13 UTC
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I have a table in SQL DB, namely dbo.subscribers, it contains following columns: -SubscriberID -JoinDateTime

The business logic says a subscription last for 2 weeks and a reminder should be sent after 7 days from the JoinDateTime.

The way that the system was designed to send reminders are via a URL call, e.g. http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/renew_userid=SubscriberID/ and that can only be called from our webserver which is the only whitelisted IP machines given.

Currently there is a windows service written to query the DB once a day at midnight to grab all expiring subscribers and send them reminders, however this batch approach only sends reminders to the nearest date, well, I could have set the interval down from 1 day to 1 hour such that the service can send notifications out closer to the exact JoinDateTime + 7 days requirements.

I have heard a stored procedure can be written and perform task like this to a nearly real-time manner, if yes, please give me some hints on how to do it.

Another question is - is SSRS bit of an overkill to perform things like this?

Please advice. TIA

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