[Zope-DB] result

Michael Long mlong@datalong.com
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:53:58 -0500


Depending on the RDBMS you can use the databases native tool to "bulk
load" the csv file into a table and then access that through a ZSQL
method. The advantage to this is that the data import can be easily
automated and it is very efficient.

> CSV file ODBC driver? I'm not on Windows, but is there something similar
> for Linux? that sounds promising.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 01:07, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> > D. Rick Anderson wrote:
> > > well .. unfortunately we dont' have access to the actual db server
yet, 
> > > and won't for another year. My boss wants me to parse this site, that 
> > > will be composed of some 50-60 different reports, based on the CSV
files 
> > > that we get daily. I just don't want to have to rewrite those 50
reports 
> > > to read the info from a DB connection once we get it.
> > 
> > Why not import the CSV tables into a database and then use one of
> > the available DAs to access it ?
> > 
> > If you're on Windows you can also use the CSV file ODBC driver from
> > MS to access the CSV files directly.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Marc-Andre Lemburg
> > eGenix.com
> > 
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