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

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Mon Feb 16 23:25:58 GMT 2004


On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:15:11PM +0000, Andy Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Duncan John Fyfe wrote:
> >On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Andy Brown wrote:
> >> 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.

If the lines were the sane why were you using a database...

Simon.

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