[thesite] Tips Database

[Dean Mah]

Seth Bienek writes:

> > especially if the format changed in the middle.
> 
> The format changes at message number 11480, to be exact. :)


Okay, cool.  It's also helpful that it doesn't change among different
(> 2) formats.


> This is what I did to parse out the dates (not sure if it's any help
> to you):
> 
> Does that make sense? It's not so much work to parse the data out,
> it's just a pain in the ass to do it every time you need the info,
> and it's not feasible for querying purposes..


Yeah, not a big deal.  I was just too lazy to do it.  Do you do
anything with the time?  I'll be storing that as well so we can do
searches like: tips less than 4 hours old.  :)

Dean