Store Application Progress to Database

Question

I have a daily launched multi-threaded loading service. I would like to keep tack of the percentage progress of the loader. I was thinking that it would be good to have an update column on a database table that writes the %Progress. Is this a good idea or will there be a large overhead(5k updates per minute). Is there a better way to do it?

Answer 1

我认为开销会太大，一个更好的解决方案是仅将进度保存在服务器上的内存中，并通过向Web服务公开一个可以提供当前进度的请求使其可用。

Answer 2

i agree with @scripni - expose the progress as a web service. however, if you need to keep a log of the actual run, or the errors, then you can selectively store things like start time, any pertinent event, and end time in the database for later review. (jus try to avoid every single step of the process being posted)