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rajkumarprajapati
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Post by rajkumarprajapati » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:26 pm

What are the practical use of GDG ?

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Post by Anuj Dhawan » Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:55 pm

Hi,

There can be many - if you tell us what are you looking for, in a little more elobrative way - one would be able to suggest some thing useful... :)
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Post by Natarajan » Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:42 pm

Raj - If this is a interview question, please post them in INTERVIEW QUESTIONS forum.


one use i can say is - it is easy to track daily reports on one GDG name.
if you use file name, when the same executed, files created before should get deleted. we loose the data. In the case of GDG , we can maintain many version of files, we dont loose data created by previous job runs.
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