Re: SQL Query of spool file data

Nope, a spooled file IS data.

What you can do with it and how you can use it might be different to the
source data it came from but it still provides information - therefore it
is data.

One of the premises of big data is that stuff that is in a text-like format
- say for instance a spool file - is still data.

I think you would not be having this dscussion if you agreed what the term
"data" meant first.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:26 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Not cute, true. A spooled file is not data. It's a picture of your

data.

But if you have a picture of the data you need, it's as good as the
data itself, or can be made to be as good as the data itself.

Then we agree, a spooled file is not data. It's a picture or
representation of the data. Yes, it can be made into the data.

That's all I was trying to say. If you NEED to use a spooled file to
extract data, that's fine. But not ideal if the real data still exists.

Brad
www.bvstools.com
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