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Re: Import speed from different file types

From	Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	Re: Import speed from different file types
Date	2011-05-09 10:20 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
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On May 5, 9:47 am, CPE Bach <hisi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi users,
> So I have hundreds of data files of time series of stock returns. To make the import process as fast as possible in Mathematica 8, should I prepare those data files in what format?
>
> xls? csv? dat? txt?
>
> Thanks for your input in advance.
>
> MP
>

If you want to regularly analyze the data then your best bet is
definitely to get all of this data into a database and use the
DatabaseLink. Seriously you'll wonder why you ever bothered importing
Excel etc. files. Also in the future add your data directly into the
database.

Mike

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Import speed from different file types CPE Bach <hisicon@gmail.com> - 2011-05-04 23:47 +0000
  Re: Import speed from different file types Albert Retey <awnl@gmx-topmail.de> - 2011-05-08 11:37 +0000
  Re: Import speed from different file types Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 10:20 +0000

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