Anyone have recommendations on tools/utilities or SQL approaches to
quickly break apart a large imported flat file into normal forms,
ideally 1NF or 2NF?
I noticed this tool for mySQL which captures what I am looking for:
http://www.sqldbu.com/eng/sections/tips/normalize.html
Given the fields with data to be output into separate tables, it
takes a csv and automatically generates a set of INSERT queries to
build all the related tables with new a new primary key for the main
table and serialized codes for each of the new tables to maintain
relationships.
Perhaps a customized php script could accomplish the same thing for
postgres?
Any suggestions would be helpful.
Dane
field names for which to break out into their own tables
On Nov 20, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> --- On Tue, 11/20/07, Finn Lassen <dcio@AxiomInt.com> wrote:
>> Here is a VB code snippet:
>> Dim dbOut As ADODB.Connection
>> Dim rsOut As ADODB.Recordset
>> Set dbOut = New ADODB.Connection
>> Set rsOut = New ADODB.Recordset
>> .ConnectionString = "Driver={PostgreSQL
>> ANSI};Server=localhost;Port=5432;Database=postgres;Uid=postgres;Pwd=n
>> one;"
>
>> Should I have created the table "Contact1" WITH
>> OIDS ?
>
> I wonder if this is a problem with the way your ODBC driver is
> configured. If it is a problem with your ODBC driver
> configuration, you might also try posting to the PostgreSQL-ODBC
> mailing list.
>
> Also, why did you choose the ANSI driver over the Unicode driver?
>
> Regards,
> Richard Broersma Jr.
>
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