RE: Comparing strings

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Cappelletti
>If not, the best thing may simply be to make the field a UNIQUE key (if >the SQL Server of the Beast will allow it) and /try/ to insert the >record. If you can't, don't. Or even better if you can check for existence using something equivalent to: If not exists (select uniquevalue from thetable

Re: Comparing strings

2005-04-11 Thread John W. Kennedy
Craig Cardimon wrote: I am working with huge ASCII text files and large text fields. Define "huge" and "large" As needs and wants have changed, I will be reprocessing data we have already gone through to see if more records can be extracted. I will need to compare strings to ensure that records I

RE: Comparing strings

2005-04-11 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am working with huge ASCII text files and large text fields. > > As needs and wants have changed, I will be reprocessing data we have > already gone through to see if more records can be extracted. > > I will need to compare strings to ensure that records I am inserti

RE: Comparing strings

2005-04-11 Thread Wayne Simmons
> -Original Message- > From: Craig Cardimon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I will need to compare strings to ensure that records I am inserting > into our SQL Sever 2000 database are not duplicates of records already > there. why don't you just put a constraint in the relevant tables, and m

Comparing strings

2005-04-11 Thread Craig Cardimon
I am working with huge ASCII text files and large text fields. As needs and wants have changed, I will be reprocessing data we have already gone through to see if more records can be extracted. I will need to compare strings to ensure that records I am inserting into our SQL Sever 2000 database

Re: how to parse querystring in mod_perl without using cgi

2005-04-11 Thread Randy Kobes
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Foo Ji-Haw wrote: > I've been reading the documentation in > listserv.activestate.com, for documentation on the > replacement for CGI->param() in apache2 mod_perl. It > seems that Apache::Request is not yet available, at least > not on the Win32 platform. Is this correct? Doe

how to parse querystring in mod_perl without using cgi

2005-04-11 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
hello guys, I've been reading the documentation in listserv.activestate.com, for documentation on the replacement for CGI->param() in apache2 mod_perl. It seems that Apache::Request is not yet available, at least not on the Win32 platform. Is this correct? Does this mean I am back to CGI->param(