LogParser 2.2
I've been waiting for this upgrade for some time now and it is finally here. I was introduced to LogParser originally in the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit. We basically had a need to provide some white papers for our customers to analyze log files and debug logs efficiently. Rather than write our own custom tools to parse the various types of logs, we found this tool and it was great help. Now, the updated version is even better. You can now read more input formats (like XML) and then generate new types of output formats like charts (in the earlier version, we imprted the data into Excel!). Either ways, this is a great tool that you can have in your machine to read arcane file formats and text files using what? SQL! The syntax used to query the various input file types is very similar to T-SQL and many operators it supports are things that you would be familiar with, if you know SQL.
Go ahead, what are you waiting for? Download it from here: LogParser 2.2
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