Re: [SLUG] Re: A question of databases

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Wed Dec 08 2004 - 12:27:24 EST


Chuck Hast wrote:

> I shall pass the perl info on to the fellow that does the tool. That
> looks like a great idea,
> he is looking at other solutions, I assume that you use the perl code
> to write the data
> to a db and work around the odbc slowness?

Mostly, Perl is used to work around programmer slowness. Heh.

>
> No, No Access. It is a dog, and any machine that runs it should have a
> blanket put over
> it when the moon is full or it will wake you up baying at the moon. We
> will transfer the
> data to Access if the customer ask for it, but no processing in
> access. I use it right
> now for these little short files but want to move on to one of the
> open source ones in
> the next couple of weeks so I can get it out of my hair.

The Microsoft Access of Evil? <shudder>
s/Access/Axis/

--
Chad
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