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 April 14, 2008 in 

I need an OS X program to handle 1.5 million lines of data. Prefer freeware / open source / shareware, but will go commercial if necessary.

Suggestions?

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  1. Ron in Houston April 14, 2008 at 4:19 pm - Reply

    Surely MySQL has a OS X version?

  2. Windypundit April 14, 2008 at 5:35 pm - Reply

    That was my thought too, and the server is available for OX X, but I don’t know if the tools are there to import the data from a file and do ad hoc queries. I don’t know MySQL well enough to tell which tools you’d need, and some of them only run on Windows. It might get a bit technical.

  3. PJ April 14, 2008 at 6:04 pm - Reply

    Mark wrote: Suggestions?

    Get less data.

  4. Windypundit April 15, 2008 at 2:43 am - Reply

    What sort of results or capabilities are you looking for once the data is loaded?

  5. Mark Bennett April 15, 2008 at 9:40 am - Reply

    I’ve got a 1.5 million line CSV file of district clerk records. I’d like to be able to manipulate the data on my mac (convert yyyy-mm-dd dates to another format, split fields with LN, FN into separate fields, and so forth), then upload it to an SQL database online.

  6. Windypundit April 15, 2008 at 10:57 pm - Reply

    I hope somebody else sent you something useful, because I haven’t got much. The Apple world is foreign to me. If I had to throw out a wild guess, I’d say download the trial version of FileMaker Pro and see if it does what you need. The commercial license will set you back $300.

  7. Allison Fisher April 21, 2008 at 9:33 am - Reply

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