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We (IT Department at work) are looking to build an iPad app, that will take numeric IDs and provide a simple lookup in a table. It is essentially a primary key search on a single table, and displaying a field after minor processing. The Caveat : There are 4.5 million rows in this table, and it needs a lookup time of maximum of 1 second. It will not have an internet connection, so it has to happen on the device. We have a few ideas but which makes most sense: Sqlite: Will it stand up to such abuse? Can it handle that many rows, and will it do it well? Flat file search: we can loop over the file

am experiencing a very strange issue in SSIS (2008). Basic workflow is as follows.. Using a flatfile source (CSV), bring into SSIS, push into SQL. When process is run on dev environment, everything works perfectly. When the dtsx package is placed in production.. using the exact same flat file source, the last record in the file is dropped by the time it gets to the start of the SQL proc. Have gone over everything i can possibly think of including line delimiters, column delimeters, rebuilding the flat file source connection. Has anyone seen anything like this before? The CSV file contains 10

Is there any framework/library to help writing fixed length flat files in java? I want to write a collection of beans/entities into a flat file without worrying with convertions, padding, alignment, fillers, etcs For example, I'd like to parse a bean like: public class Entity{ String name = "name"; // length = 10; align left; fill with spaces Integer id = 123; // length = 5; align left; fill with spaces Integer serial = 321 // length = 5; align to right; fill with '0' Date register = new Date();// length = 8; convert to yyyyMMdd } ... into ... name 123 0032120110505 mikhas 5000 0122120110504