To quickly combine multiple files, place the files you want to combine in a new folder.
Open a command prompt: click your Start button 
, click Run 
, type cmd. Use the CD (Change Directory) command to navigate to the folder where your files are stored.
Use the DIR command to create a file with a list of the text files in this folder: dir *.txt >Dir.txt. Close your command prompt, by clicking on the X as shown: 
.
Using a text editor, copy the file names from Dir.txt into a new text file.
Save the new file as CombineFiles.bat in your directory with the other files.
Using copy /b combine all file names in a + delimited list onto the first line of the CombineFiles.bat file. After your list of files, type a space and then the name for your new large file which will contain the contents of the other files.
Example 1: copy /b Data-File-0.txt+Data-File-1.txt+Data-File-2.txt+Data-File-3.txt+Data-File-4.txt+Data-File-5.txt+Data-File-6.txt+Data-File-7.txt+Data-File-8.txt+Data-File-9.txt+Data-File-10.txt+Data-File-11.txt New-Large-File.txt This will combine the files in the exact order you've expressed in your + delimited list.
Example 2: If file order doesn't matter, copy /b *.txt New-Large-File.txt will copy all files into the new file.
Save and close CombineFiles.bat. Run CombineFiles.bat by going back to your folder with the files and clicking on CombineFiles.bat. Running this file is known as executing a batch file.
When the batch file completes (this can take a while if your files are large), your command prompt will close by itself. Go back to your folder to find your new file containing the contents of the other files, if you’ve followed the naming convention above, the file will be named: New-Large-File.txt.
There: we’ve successfully combined 10 flat data files into 1 large data file, just like that.
To set your default printer (just like you can in Microsoft Windows): next time you print, check out the MEDITECH 5.6 Print Preferences button to the right of your screen.
Since my work usually involves loading vendor databases, data marts and warehouses, my default should be Download. Maybe your default will be the printer at your desk.
If the extract runs at the same speed all of the time, use
binary troubleshooting to
divide & conquer the performance issues inherent in the code. Assuming the extract can be run faster when restarted, rule out
slowness, 1 aspect at a time:
- Can the extract be scheduled to start at another time and run quicker? Example: 2:00 a.m. instead of 12:00 a.m. If so ... start time could be the cause.
- Reboot the machine where the extract is running. If ... extract run time does not improve, the state of the server was not the issue.
- Run the extract from another machine. If run time improves, look at re-installing MEDITECH client on the original machine. If performance does not improve, then try re-imaging the client machine.
When I use a systematic method, to locate the cause of my problem, I usually don't get very far in the troubleshooting process. Often I'll get to somewhere around steps 6 - 9 and spot the trouble.
That's because
Binary Troubleshooting is a method used to solve problems.
To start: imagine your problem as a system. Divide the system into 2 equal areas & implement tests to prove the problem is not in 1 of the 2 areas.
Continue: divide the remaining piece of the system where the problem is now proven to exist, into 2 more pieces. Implement tests to isolate the cause of the problem to just 1 of the remaining pieces. Rinse & repeat.
Stop: when you find the cause of the problem. If your problem were to consist of over 1 million possibilities, it would only take you 20 steps: to find the root cause of the problem.
This divide & conquer process comes in handy, especially when working on projects in unfamiliar terrain.
The previous article did not include an actual link to the MEDITECH White Paper.
Thank you HP for noticing!
99.999% of the time, Meditech NPR uses indexes to provide efficient access to data just as you'd expect.
I am aware of 1 situation where the MEDITECH NPR Report Writer will use an index by default, even when you haven't specified an index. When this index doesn't contain all information from this mission critical data structure it represents, you won't be able to report on everything in that data segment.
Read our white paper, you'll see first hand what this looks like when it happens; how to validate other reports, and how to prevent it.
Programmatically build a list in MEDITECH memory of numeric characters 0 through 9.
To build this list, implement & call the following sub-routine from a MEDITECH NPR macro.
BUILD.NUMERIC.LIST
0-1^I,
DO{I<9 @Add(1,I),1^/NUMERIC.LIST[I]}
APPLIES to: MEDITECH MAGIC, MEDITECH Client Server
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Is it secure? Yes, read all about it here: http://trello.com/privacy.
UPDATE:
further
Restarting the Meditech Document Manager on 12/12/2011 shows
restarting the service DELETES the existing file. If you have to restart the service, you'll need to close & restart your extracts.