If the recurring details, start or end fields aren't changed there is no need to mess with the event_occurrences. When modifying any of those details DELETE FROM event_occurrences WHERE event_id=? And then have a method that will generate the event_occurrences for a given event id.
The same method could be used for creating and modifying.
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