If your desktop box isn't a wimpy laptop or dumb terminal, you should be able to run a temporary database locally, without giving it any access from the network or using external resources. Worst case, would you be allowed to use something like DBM::Deep with a flat file?

Collect your set of scripts for importing the various types of datafile you commonly see, and run those on demand during the meeting. Once the meeting is over, drop the whole database.

So when the meeting happens, you fire up the database, doubleclick your "import_feedfile.pl", and then run the first query. Question 2, you change the query. Question 3, you doubleclick "import_downstream_feedfile.pl", and then run your new query. Rinse and repeat.

IE: Don't have scripts for one-off filtering, only keep scripts for importing the various files you'll see more than once, and do your actual queries with SQL.

In reply to Re^3: The Eternal "filter.pl" by SuicideJunkie
in thread The Eternal "filter.pl" by Voronich

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