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Rees Noturana
Red Rock Mining Company
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Posted - 2011.08.30 14:36:00 -
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CSV means simpler access to a lot of different programming languages.
MSSQL backup format means evil MS land, angry, angry, flame war. I think we've had enough of those lately. I don't need the added hassle of converting the data into something simple and readable before I run my script on it. Open standards beats weird MS garbage any day.
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Rees Noturana
Red Rock Mining Company
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Posted - 2011.08.30 15:59:00 -
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@CCP Stillman
What is different about the way third party services process market data compared to what you are thinking about doing that requires a delay of days to get at the data? Perhaps a different approach can be taken to streamline price computation.
For an API I'd like what eve-central.com provides but from the official API server. I don't need a historical dump of the last year. Maybe you can provide a regular canned data dump for the historical data. Just publish that somewhere on a regular basis for those that want to generate charts and do more analysis.
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Rees Noturana
Red Rock Mining Company
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Posted - 2011.08.30 16:57:00 -
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 Originally by: radix29
MSSQL all the way.. btw you can download and install SQL Express for free.
Windows isn't the only operating system in the world. Data should be in an open format.
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Rees Noturana
Red Rock Mining Company
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Posted - 2011.08.30 17:00:00 -
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I'm thinking there is a difference in perspective going on here. CCP is talking about providing us with historical data, which is nice to have. But, many of us just want a way to query prices for our trade and production models. If we can get near real time median prices from trade hubs and also get batch downloads of historical data I think you could satisfy most people.
Yes, I can live with 24-48 hours for computing production costs.
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Rees Noturana
Red Rock Mining Company
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Posted - 2011.08.30 23:13:00 -
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Originally by: Max Kolonko
Originally by: Adunh Slavy
CSV - It is the lowest common format.
So is XML
XML is fine but considering the simplicity of the output, a simple table, having a less verbose format like CSV can really save on downloading. With XML we'll have as much text wrapping the content as we have in content. I'd say CSV is faster to parse as well.
Both the size of the file and speed of parsing really add up with a large data dump.
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