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I'm looking for some direction in scheduling sequential tasks within Windows Scheduler. The tasks in this instance are workflows that kick off data ETL and incremental load jobs. We want to only initiate subsequent tasks in which prior tasks have been finished. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!
Thanks Dog for your response!! I have another slight nuanced scenario. So we have two parallel tasks running and then we have a child tasks that is DEPENDENT on both the parallel tasks completing. How would you configure something like that? And also for future scenarios in which there could be 3,4 parallel parent tasks that future tasks will depend on. Thanks for your help. – Whit – 2019-01-31T21:32:22.410
If running the tasks in series is an option, you can use
Start /Wait ...
for that. But if they have to run in parallel, and a future task has to be delayed until both parallel tasks finish, you'll want to use something with more flexibility than the Windows Task Scheduler. A batch file or PowerShell script can start the parallel tasks, keep track of their successes or failures, and then decide if and when to start the following task or tasks. – Doug Deden – 2019-01-31T22:44:07.857