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in thread SAS vs Perl?

AFAIK they specialize in making data aggregations (for relational data mostly). That is data that is preprocessed in some way to reduce its volume. An example can be a log file with timestamps accurate to a second. You rarely need that acuracy - so you can sum the number of records of each type in every hour and keep just the information of those sums. You'll still be able to extract any information you need from this data, but the you reduced the volume of the data - and those extractions would be much faster.

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Re: Re: Re: SAS vs Perl?
by benn (Vicar) on Aug 14, 2003 at 11:43 UTC
    <tongue_in_cheek>

    Aha! So that's what "a complete framework for delivering high-value enterprise intelligence that optimally integrates individual technology components within your existing infrastructure" means! Is that something like... 

    foreach(@log) {
  /(some regex with captures here)/;
  push @{$hourly_site_log_sum{$1}{$2}},$3;
}

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    </tongue_in_cheek>

    :) Ben.

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