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Joao Marcos Melo Mendes (jmmm@megamedia.pt)
Sun, 8 Sep 1996 06:36:41 +0100 (BST) 

Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 06:36:41 +0100 (BST)
From: Joao Marcos Melo Mendes <jmmm@megamedia.pt>
Subject: Re: [mSQL] A few miscellaneous questions...
Message-Id: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960908063241.17721A-100000@gatekeeper.megamedia.pt>

Hey, tehre.:)

On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jim Reynolds wrote:

> miserable time with MS-SQL Server. I don't really need a database program,
> but I do need a query interface to extract data from tables I'm using.
> So far, mSQL looks like it will do the job!

These were the first lines I got. I'm wondering if there was more.
Anyways...

> A couple of questions and concerns:

> and didn't see anything mentioned about it. My goal is to store monetary
> amounts as reals, and do comparasions with (>), (<), and (=). Maybe even
> some multiplication too. I can't do this with char-type or ints.

You can in Perl.:)

> Are there any other programs out there, shareware or commercial, that
> process large ASCII data files? Can anyone offer a comparasion of gdbm

Perl is also rather good at handling this sort of thing. Plus, the
perlmsql module is rather smoothly written, IMHO.

Hope this helps.:)

                                        Joao Mendes
                                        MegaMedia, S.A.

"We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms." - Mark Knopfler

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