On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:12:51 +0200 Bart Lateur <bart.lat...@telenet.be> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 11:55:47 +0300, Henri Asseily wrote: > > >If you're ok with one big transaction where if it fails you have to > >redo it all, then just do the above. > > Well in the root post he did say: > > >1500 of these rows have faulty data. > > so I don't think it's OK to fail completely on an error... Unless the > data gets prescreened. In Perl. > Thanks for all the responses. It was a one off exercise that roused my curiosity which has now been satisfied. SQLite is a great facility for my purposes, I don't know how it would get on with gigabyte sized files, but certainly for smaller stuff and general hack work, it and its perl interface are ideal Owen
