On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Jim Starkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Brian Aker wrote:
>
>>
>>  'Twere I doing drizzle, I'd drop the LOAD DATA INFILE as a lipstick-less
>>> pig, put in an analog to addBatch/executeBatch, put in a client library a)
>>> parse separator delimited files (and maybe others, like the native black
>>> hole storage format), an a load utility using the library and extended API.
>>>
>>
>>
>> The only part the above does not answer is "should the database know how
>> to load files". For a remote execution I agree with you, for a local... we
>> shall see.
>>
>>  Remote is a little confusing (or is it just me).  Do you mean the server
> that is remote from the client or the client that is remote from server?
>
> Perhaps we could agree on "server side" or "client side" execution?
>  Otherwise, it depends on your perspective: Do you think as a user or as a
> database developer?


Excellent point.  I can't tell you how many folks I know that have been
confused by that over the years.  It should be made unambiguous somehow.

Jeremy
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