Re: [PLUG] chopping files

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:06:59PM -0500, Randy Schmidt wrote:
> If you just split a file used to load a db...won't that split up the
> sql in a possibly inconvenient location that may break the sql
> statements? Could you split it up into individual tables?

Who said a database load was SQL?

In the real (business) world, rather than the GNU (mysql/postgresql)
world, "most" database loads come from fixed-width text files...
though we can get into various split(1) implementations' support of
ASCII v. EBCDIC, if you like. ;^>

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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