Worming on a small project, and have been doing a lot of Perl scripting to parse various types of files to populate the database. Now I need to get data from a cloud services provider (time-keeping). They have a REST API that returns data in a JSOSN format. So here is the question, should I just manually parse this data, as I have been doing to insert into appropriate entities into the database? Or should I insert the JSON data, and use some queries in the database to populate my tables from the JSON tables? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin