|  | Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 03/03/07 09:58 
Greg D. Moore (Strider) (mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com) writes:> And further, I'll again suggest perl.
 >
 > It may very well be faster to export the data, manipulate it in perl which
 > is designed for string processing and reimport it.
 >
 > Especially if it appears to be a one time thing.
 
 I could consider doing a thing like this in Perl, since I'm fluent in
 that language, and thus I could cut down the total time, that is
 development + execution. Assuming, that is, it is a one-off.
 
 If there is need to do this on a regular basis, there should be other
 factors to determine whether to do this in Access or SQL Server. Just
 moving the data to SQL Server - or a file - and then back, is likely
 to be a loser.
 
 Of course, it's perfectly possible to use ADO from Perl to access the
 Access database.
 
 --
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