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On 29-7-2014 20:40, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>
>> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> writes:
>>> On 7/29/2014 6:40 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> nag <visitnag@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>> I have a text file with employee_number and employee_name and
>>>>> employee_email id delimited with comma.
>>>>>
>>>>> i have uploaded it into a mysql table called empDetails.
>>>>
>>>> That may not be the best thing to do.  For example, if the definitive
>>>> source of the data is somewhere else and it's been exported to you to
>>>> do this task, putting it into a DB just complicates the process and adds
>>>> another point of failure.  It does not make the task any easier.
>>>>
>>>> (Of course, there are lots of cases when it *is* the right thing to do
>>>> -- it's impossible to say from what you've said.)
>>>
>>> Actually, I think it's a pretty logical thing to do.  Retrieving data
>>> from a SQL database is easier than a .csv file.
>>
>> I'd say they are pretty much the same, with the DB being a tad more
>> fussy if it needs authentication.  But I was talking about the work
>> flow.  I was saying that fopen and an fgetcsv loop is easier than the
>> import *plus* the read from DB.
>
> You have to deal with several delimiters and escape sequences in a CSV, but
> not in a database.  A proper database does not have have empty lines/rows,

But when importing that csv file to your database you also have to solve 
these things......

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sending pdf files to individual email... nag <visitnag@gmail.com> - 2014-07-28 22:31 -0700
  Re: sending pdf files to individual email... "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2014-07-29 09:34 +0200
  Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-07-29 11:40 +0100
    Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-07-29 09:36 -0400
      Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-07-29 18:31 +0100
        Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-07-29 14:19 -0400
        Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-29 20:40 +0200
          Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2014-07-30 20:26 +0200
        Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-07-29 19:53 +0000
      Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-07-29 19:50 +0000
  Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> - 2014-07-29 11:11 +0000
  Re: sending pdf files to individual email... nag <visitnag@gmail.com> - 2014-08-19 07:20 -0700
    Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-08-19 11:42 -0400
    Re: sending pdf files to individual email... Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-08-22 22:46 -0700

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