Re: [Sheflug] sybase, anyone?

[Barrie Bremner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Will" == Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk> writes:

    Will> On Tuesday 14 May 2002 2:15 pm, you wrote:
    >> i've got redhat 7.1 going on a nice dell poweredge server.  i'm
    >> writing in C (which I'm new to) trying to get data from a flat
    >> ASCII file into a big sybase database, by calling special
    >> procedures (from a 3rd party manufacturer) using the sybase
    >> Open DB library.

    Will> I would reccomend using Perl for this. It's the best
    Will> language for text processing and stuff like that. It's also
    Will> rather forgiving.

    Will> There's Sybase/Perl info here:


Amen to that.

I do quite a lot of text processing in Perl - it's extremely easy to
knock together something to reformat files, general munging and the
like.

Performance wise, it's not at all bad when compared to some 3rd party
C utilites in a lot of cases, and it's easier to know whats going on
with your own code :-)

We're using Perl as a part of several systems that should see a few
10's or even 100's of millions of records a month.

I've not got much experience with DBI, but if there is a DBI::Sybase
module (http://search.cpan.org/ is the place to look) you're all set. 

Cheers.

Baz.
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