The title pretty much says it all - if you schedule a SQL Server job to run every X number of minutes, and it does not finish the previous call before the # of minutes is up, will it skip the run since it is already running, or will it run two instances of the job doing the same steps? ...
In the process of deploying our .net app, I've got about 20 scheduled tasks set up on a server, all of which basically do the same thing: invoke a small .net console app that pulls data from a SQL db and posts it to a web service. Each task invokes a separate copy of the app, each copy having a different lookup ID value in its config fi...
I'm looking for a project management tool with the following characteristics; 1) web based 2) collaborative. One person (the project manager) must be able to create tasks and assign them to co-workers. The co-workers must be able to edit them en resolve them, but they should not be able to close or reassign them. So if the project manage...
I have a SSIS 2005 package that is up and running in our production environment. The package uses an SMTP Connection Manager to send an e-mail message out to a designated user. We have a scheduled job that executes this package, and also overrides the SMTP connection string so that the package can target the test or production mail serve...
Is there any way to launch get a BREW application started according to a schedule? This is basically the same question as this one, only for BREW instead of Windows Mobile. ...
How do you cope when one (or some) of your project(s) is/are getting way behind schedules and upper management is pinching you on the matter? ...
Hi all I have just done a clean install of CF8 on a Windows 2000 machine. I have a scheduled task I need to run every 15 minutes on this machine, and the machine does little else. The task is set up as normal through CF admin, but for some reason, when the task takes about 5 minutes to run it will complete fine (I can see this from d...
I might have to write an application for this, but I thought I'd ask here first, maybe someone else already wrote it. I am looking for a small, preferably web application with the following features: everyone logs on, so the app can know who does what everyone can add tasks and assign them to someone (including themselves) you can mar...
I'm developing a Twitter application on OAuth and I want to provide the ability to post updates in the future. The basic plan is to run a script every hour and find any updates which need to be posted, and then authenticate the appropriate user and use the statuses/update API call. However, I don't know how I can use OAuth for this. I ...
on my local Windows machine, how do i write a script to download a comic strip every day and email it to myself? such as http://comics.com/peanuts/ Update: i know how to download the image as a file. the hard part is how to email it from my local Windows machine. ...
I've got a web server and a database server, and I'd like to run a job that uses an existing C# DLL to access the database and perform some calculations. Is the simplest method to create a console app in C# and schedule it on the web server (app server) to run against the DB server? I see SSIS as an option, but I don't know that well, ...
I just saw this question and one of the answers looks really appealing to me, but I have no idea where the classes come from. What assembly can I find the DailyTrigger and ScheduledTasks class? What namespace are they in? Are they only useful for the Windows Scheduled Tasks located in the Control Panel? Is there any other useful info...
Hello, I'm new here, so sorry, if my question is too basic. However, maybe you have some advice, example, links, which could help me... I'm trying to find something helpfull for few days, but no results as for now. I'm working in a distributed environment. I have a Oracle server hundreds of miles away and a MS SQL server close to me. I'...
Alright. So. None of these create the scheduled task correctly with %DATE% and %TIME%: SCHTASKS /Create /TN MyTask /TR "echo %DATE% %TIME% >> C:\SchtaskLog.txt" /SC MINUTE SCHTASKS /Create /TN MyTask /TR "echo ^%DATE^% ^%TIME^% >> C:\SchtaskLog.txt" /SC MINUTE SCHTASKS /Create /TN MyTask /TR "echo \%DATE\% \%TIME\% >> C:\SchtaskLog.txt"...
I need to add group within a group e.g. COMPUTER\Users group to the "Backup Operators" group. Wix provides a way to add a user to a group using the GroupRef Element but does not seem to provide an obvious way to add a group Can this be done? If so how? ...
I have a simple batch file as seen below that should extract a zip file to the root of E:. The zip file is valid and I can run the batch file from the command line just fine. Instead of completing the task, it continues to inform me that the Status is "Running". The problem is, it is not running and the file never gets unzipped. Th...
How do I change the credentials used by a scheduled task using C#.NET? ...
Hi folks, I need to offer scheduling of actions/events, in our web site. A crap analogy could be a calendar system, where a person adds a calendar item and when the date/time has been 'hit', then some logic (eg calculate a report) is fired. I could be having hundreds and even thousands of scheduled events that are entered by my clients...
I have a file that I'm try to move via a batch file on a timed schedule. move sourceFile destinationFile. Destination file is on a mapped network drive Z. So for example, the command would be: move C:\myfile.txt Z:\myfile.txt When I execute the batch file in Windows by double clicking it, it works fine. But when I schedule it via T...
I realize that this question is "answered" at the following thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/447774 However, I'm still having trouble understanding the answer and seeing exactly what the result would look like for my situation. My schtasks command looks like this: schtasks /create /tr "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\javaw.ex...