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Re: Making the most, or over-thinking it - SQL for uploads

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Jones, Mike <mike.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1) I convert the PC data to bar delimited, since a bar character is rarely found inside data.

Good plan. How do you go about doing that? (I'm asking both out of
curiosity and "for the archives". Of course there are many good
options.)

If the data format is inconsistent, no matter how you slice it, you have to deal with the inconsistency. I prefer to deal with data quality issues up on the host, instead of during the transfer to the host, because I've created a large library of host based SQL transformation functions.

I'm sure it works well for you and a great many midrangers. I imagine
some folks find it easier to deal with the quality issues before the
upload, either because their skills and comfort level are more geared
toward building such tools on their client platform, or because they
have third-party tools written for their client platform.

John Y.

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