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I'm an IT monkey for the project management team (the PHBs of the PHBs) in a corporate IT department. A while ago I decided to start learning Perl so I wrote a 150 line script (most of it is just SQL) to automate the process of running several ODBC queries in Access and dump that information into a formatted Excel spreadsheet. Doing it Perl has the benefits of not having to use Access, which is demon-spawn. If there ever arises a need for something new (most of my work is reporting) Perl will undoubtably be my first choice. Working with VBA last year atrophied my brain.



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