saving a recorset

Hi
I have a VB6 program that connect to a table"Schedule",this table has 2 fields:Meeting Description and Date,when the program loads,it should read each record and compare its date field with now(),if it's equal,a MsgBox appears telling the user about the meeting,this process must be done every 3 minutes.
My problem is that I don't want to open a recordset every 3 minutes to compare the date with now,so i was thinking of storing the recordset obtained from the form load and instead of looping through the recorset to view the meeting that has a date=now() to loop through the stored recorset.
can anyone have an idea about how to do it?
thanks

If you are comparing it every three minutes, be sure to compare the date>=now()

open recordset on form load .... and dont close it also take recordset as public variable so that it could b access in other events also

then in timer event put a loop to compare thae records with now().

In fact u need not open a recordset every 3 minutes. that would be a waste of resources. try using a persistent recordset

How about putting it into an array?

Good idea! you can release the recordset and keep comparing with the array values

Hi to all
I was thinking saving the recordset into an array,but i don't know too much about the use of array
can anyone guide me about the use of array in this case?
thanks in advance