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Scripted lookup or command?

vbumgarn
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Which is more efficient, a scripted lookup or a command?

I've written a piece of code as both, and the command is certainly easier to write, and I would never want to wire this particular lookup to run automatically, so unless the lookup is more efficient, I see no reason to not write the code as a command.

Thoughts?

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Kate_Lawrence-G
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