[Nottingham] Nottingham Perl Mongers (good/bad idea?)

[Andy Brown]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Duncan John Fyfe wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Andy Brown wrote:
>
>>
>> Lesson 7
>> Total insanity, such as using perl to read CSV files and stuff data
>> into a Microsoft SQL Server (well, MSDE) database.
>>
>> (and yes, this probably *is* the best way of doing the data transfer)
>>
>>
>
>Why is this insane ?

Because of the format of the CSV, every line is different. And it's
all being done on windows, using ODBC to talk to the database.

-- 
Andy B