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Even better is LogParser, which lets you do SQL queries against just about any data format you'll find in a file on Windows. It's been around for a decade and continues to be improved.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd919274.asp...

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Microsoft LogParser is not only an established utility, it's extremely fast, too.

I remember LogParser from years back. I used to be very involved in that nascent community, and I developed a plugin for it that let you parse an input file using a regex with capture groups so you could use SQL queries on log files that did not have records with simple delimited columns.

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