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I have an asp.net mvc3 website, I need to update the database periodically, for example, get some web resources from another site and use that as my data. I think I should write some web services to do the job since the service should be running all the time, but I don’t know where to start, is this hard? Where can I find the right tutorials for this job..
If you need to update the data periodically, here are some questions you need to consider:
Will the data updates be driven by user input? If so, the web application will update the data, there are numerous ways this can be accomplished, I assume you have some sort of method established to communicate with your data store?
Will the data be updated by another data source? If so, consider using SSIS or some other ETL tool, if the data can be “batched”, i.e. loaded nightly or hourly
Thirdly, I’m not sure what your scenario is, from the question its pretty broad, you could use a Windows Service as an option if you are more comfortable populating your data via C#/VB.NET as opposed to something like SSIS. The Windows Service can periodically perform an action on your behalf.
Finally, maybe update your question a bit, “update database periodically” is very vague.