Re: Cursors (foiled again)

2007-12-03 Thread Jeff Zucker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while since I did dbi, but I used to be quite proficient. Now I'm back to it. What I want to do is read a flat file that has a column value in it, do a select on the database to find a corresponding column value and then modify the flat file record based on th

Cursors (foiled again)

2007-12-03 Thread gbostock
It's been a while since I did dbi, but I used to be quite proficient. Now I'm back to it. What I want to do is read a flat file that has a column value in it, do a select on the database to find a corresponding column value and then modify the flat file record based on that retrieved column valuie.

Pedant at the London Perl Workshop

2007-12-03 Thread Tim Bunce
The London Perl Workshop was fun. http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2007/ Gave my first Keynote. Seems to be well received, even if I did trip up on my final climactic line (because it wass off the bottom of my speaker notes window). I'm really only posting this email because of a great p