[Info-vax] wrong file format

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu Jan 7 22:38:50 EST 2021


On 1/7/2021 10:30 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 1/7/2021 8:24 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/7/2021 8:16 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>                                             If for data mining and
>>> such, the solution is simple.  Set up a RDBMS and the means to
>>> populate and update it from live data files.  Which is what we did.
>>> This also keeps people out of the live data.
>>
>> It is a lot easier to move data from one RDBMS to another RDBMS than
>> to move from some custom binary file to a RDBMS.
> 
> Once the programming to implement that is completed, please explain to 
> me what is so much easier than just running the existing code?  One sets 
> up batch jobs and forgets about the task.

Ignoring the programming there is no difference.

But the code to access the custom binary file need to
be developed and to be maintained

For RDBMS you can either use simpler code or use a
standard tool (lots exist as it is a common problem).

Arne



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