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Re: sending pdf files to individual email... [message #186444 is a reply to message #186438]

Wed, 30 July 2014 18:26

Luuk
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On 29-7-2014 20:40, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>
>> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> writes:
>>> On 7/29/2014 6:40 AM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> nag <visitnag(at)gmail(dot)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... By: Nagaraju Kachapuram on Tue, 29 July 2014 05:31
		Re: sending pdf files to individual email... By: J.O. Aho on Tue, 29 July 2014 07:34
		Re: sending pdf files to individual email... By: Ben Bacarisse on Tue, 29 July 2014 10:40
		Re: sending pdf files to individual email... By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 29 July 2014 13:36
		Re: sending pdf files to individual email... By: Ben Bacarisse on Tue, 29 July 2014 17:31
		Re: sending pdf files to individual email... By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 29 July 2014 18:19
		Re: sending pdf files to individual email... By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 29 July 2014 18:40
		Re: sending pdf files to individual email... By: Luuk on Wed, 30 July 2014 18:26
		Re: sending pdf files to individual email... By: Denis McMahon on Tue, 29 July 2014 19:53
		Re: sending pdf files to individual email... By: Denis McMahon on Tue, 29 July 2014 19:50
		Re: sending pdf files to individual email... By: Derek Turner on Tue, 29 July 2014 11:11

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