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

[Michael Erskine]

> 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...

It looks like this thread needs moving to the Nottingham Perl Mongers
mailing list -- I'd better set it up :)

Michael.

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Michael Erskine
Senior Software Engineer
Jasmin Simtec Limited

A.W. Graham and M.A. Halley of KPMG were appointed Joint Administrative
Receivers of Jasmin Plc and Joint Administrators of Jasmin Simtec
Limited and Jasmin Controls Limited on 29th January 2004.