On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:59:50 -0800, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I can't but think that MySQL is way overkill. Tha'ts true if you have to install it for just that purpose. Otherwise it is a rather convenient way to handle this data and you don't have to write some script for the queries. :) >Let's define the queries we want to do, and see if awk isn't >up to them :-) It probably is, and it's far easier to I don't think that you can't handle it with a script. :) And I also see the point of users not wanting to install MySQL for such a small task. :) >set up than MySQL. Those who can't think in anything but SQL >really should try learning the traditional unix programmer's >workbench tools for relational database processing. I have no problem with either. If it is in MySQL I can handle it and if it is a flat file in an organized manner I can also handle it. I have written enough shell scripts so I don't see any problem for that. -- Gerhard Gruber Für jedes menschliche Problem gibt es immer eine einfache Lösung: Klar, einleuchtend und falsch. (Henry Louis Mencken)
