[ale] I've Been Made Redundant

[ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com (Jim)]

Mike Harrison wrote:
>> Manually Key data into roughly 2 dozen data fields for approximately 
>> 10,000 lines of data.  The data has to be manually keyed so that they 
>> can receive support from Oracle.  You will key basic information such as 
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> What? No way to stuff the keyboard ala 'expect' or similiar tools? 
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I was thinking the same thing, the only way I could see them needing 
manual entry was if the data was handwritten paper.  Even if it was 
typed/printed, one could scan it and get the data that way simpler than 
manual entry.

But to go into an Oracle DB from any kind of text file, it would 
probably be trivial to write a perl script  to do it in no time.

Maybe the description of the problem was actually a test.  People who 
volunteered to enter the data would fail.  People that called them 
stupid, would pass and get a job translating data from one form to 
another. 

But I don't know and am not interested in a data entry job.

Jim.