perl processes stalling/sleeping

2002-11-02 Thread Erik Ableson
Here's an odd one that's driving me nuts. On some W2K servers I have some data processing scripts that munge a _lot_ of data (running complex deltas and fiddly stuff of about a Gig of data). What I'm seeing is that the perl processes will randomly stall and just sit there at zero CPU usage. If I'

Encoding strangeness

2003-08-14 Thread Erik Ableson
I'm having some odd behaviour here with the latest perl 5.8 build trying to deal with extended character sets. I'm pulling some data down from a LDAP Server and the data that comes down is encoded in such a fashion that I need to perform the following transformation on the data in order to be a

Re: Questions about Win32::ODBC and MS Access

2004-01-18 Thread Erik Ableson
If you're just getting started, I would suggest validating the SQL in Access before trying to put it into perl. IS NULL and IS NOT NULL statements should not be enclosed in quotes. SQL wildcards are represented with the percent symbol. I assume you were searching for strings starting with 0. No