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In order to simulate an enterprise environment we cooked up a company, complete with customers, products and even order histories. But in order to make it come to life, I've spent the last week in a fugue, moving from PERL...
September 12, 2002

The first one took some modification to the table. What the heck is the difference between a datetime and a smalldatetime? Argh! Finally, I was ready to try the last file.
Alas, it was not to be completed today. The PERL script that had generated the customer data was not perfect. It missed some enclosing quotes. vi and regular expressions are your friend, unless you're dealing with a 35MB file. Scratch that. Write a quick shell script to modify the data and set it to running. We'll get that customer data in tomorrow.

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