Posted by Scott Marquardt on 09/27/05 19:17

GeoSynch opined thusly on Sep 27:
> Scott Marquardt at wit's-end:
>
>> Less intrusive, yeah. I'll be needing to roll my own shredder, though --
>> unless you'd care to name some good controls. Haven't tried any, ever,
>> really. It's been nice to have never needed to!
>
>> I anticipate we'll see now more than 3000 such records a year, so this is
>> probably something that could be done at runtime. Users won't be running
>> anything that queries a result of this, so parsing it all out when running
>> reports (not sure where to implement that, yet, but it won't be in the
>> application itself) is an inelegant but tenable option.
>
> More stuff to drive you even crazier - Log Parser from Microsoft:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/tools/logparser/default.mspx
>
> It'll either drive you over the edge, or restore your sanity.

No. You don't understand. We're so understaffed and overbooked that I could
have this operating right now somewhere, in a scheduled task or a script,
and I might not even know about it. I can't begin to count the number of
things we've been grateful for and implemented without documenting it.

That's the world of education, folks! ;-)

Hey! Download to the usual folder asks whether to overwrite. Guess I've got
it already! ;-)

--

Scott

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