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Reducing a 3 to 6 hour SSIS job to 2 minutes

2011-11-07

In computer programming, the OCD inside many computer programmers wants to write the most efficient program possible in order to accomplish the task at hand. This of course has to be balanced with time to completion, understanding of requirements, complexity, and generally how many other tasks are also waiting to be completed. Sometimes, you make due with "get 'er done" mainly because the system completes the job in an acceptable amount of time. This can be especially true of a scheduled job - like SSIS tasks. In our specific example, we had an SSIS task which would take anywhere from 3 to 6 hours to complete...

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C# Script File Chooser Example

2007-03-19

Wrote following code as example how to use C# script to show a dialog for a choice of files. You can get C# script from http://www.csscript.net/ You can also add this file to a C# project, and compile it normally.

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Microsoft MechCommander 2 Shared Source Release

2007-03-07

Following is a quote from Microsoft's announcement on MechCommander 2 Shared Source Release page with a few handy hyperlinks tossed in: Overview This is the Shared Source release for MechCommander 2. This release contains all of the source code and source assets required to build MechCommander 2. This release can be used with the Microsoft XNA Build March 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP).

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