Question

I have been told to make a process that insert data for clients using multithreading.

Need to update a client database in a short period of time.There is an application that does the job but it’s single threaded.Need to make it multithread.

The idea being is to insert data in batches using the existing application

EG
Process 50000 records
assign 5000 record to each thread

The idea is to fire 10-20 threads and even multiple instance of the same application to do the job.

Any ideas,suggestions examples how to approach this.
It’s .net 2.0 unfortunately.

Are there any good example how to do it that you have come across,EG ThreadPool etc.

Reading on multithreading in the meantime

Answer 1

I’ll bet dollars to donuts the problem is that the existing code just uses an absurdly inefficient algorithm. Making it multi-threaded won’t help unless you fix the algorithm too. And if you fix the algorithm, it likely will not need to be multi-threaded. This doesn’t sound like the type of problem that typically benefits from multi-threading itself.

The only possible scenario I could see where this matters is if latency to the database is an issue. But if it’s on the same LAN or in the same datacenter, that won’t be an issue.