The more I think about this, the more convinced I become that you'll be better off doing it all (or mostly) in SQL. First prepare a file containing just the group numbers, and load that into a table in your database (I'm presuming you have the permissions to do that). Then delete all the matching rows: 

DELETE my_new_table
WHERE exists (
    SELECT 1 from part_group
    WHERE part_group.part_group = my_new_table.part_group
)

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Then just insert them in a second statement: 
INSERT part_group(part_group)
SELECT part_group
FROM   my_new_table

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I know it's not a Perl solution, but it's probably the fastest way (given many unwarraned assumptions about your data model, amount of data, etc. ;-)

In reply to Re: DBI - need for speed by VSarkiss
in thread DBI - need for speed by with.a.twist

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