Implementing Dapper for in-situ profile data

[John Caron]

Joe Sirott wrote:
 
> By the way, I think it might actually be easier to create netCDF files 
> from your database and load them into Dapper then it would be to write 
> your own database layer for an OpenDap SQL based server, especially if 
> the database is large and is not updated often (> 1 hour, say). You 
> could use any language with SQL and netCDF support (Java, Python, Ruby, 
> Perl, etc) to generate the files and run the loader program.

What format do the netcdf files have to be in?