Dear Kevin,
thank you vey much, it worked (we are running Interbase 6.0 as SQL
server).
Alberto Tosetto
Divisione di Ematologia Department of Hematology
Ospedale S. Bortolo S. Bortolo Hospital
via Rodolfi via Rodolfi
36100 Vicenza 36100 Vicenza
Italia Italy
Kevin Turner wrote:
>
> Alberto Tosetto, M.D. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I am having a problem with the odbc command on Stata 8.0. When I use
> >the exec("...") option in the odbc load command, everything works fine
> >provided that the SQL WHERE statement does not address VARCHAR values.
> >For instance, if I try the following SQL statement
> >
> >SELECT * FROM MYTABLE, WHERE GENDER="F"
> >
> >Stata gives me back the following message: table() or exec() is required
>
> The short answer is to use single quotes for any quoted value in your SQL
> statement.
>
> SELECT * FROM MYTABLE, WHERE GENDER='F'
>
> Most ODBC Drivers, and the SQL servers they connect to, actually prefer single
> quotes within SQL commands. All SQL servers we have tested take both single
> and double as interchangeable. The Stata command line parser, however, does
> not identify double quotes as valid syntax at this time so you will be required
> to use single quotes.
>
> In the near future Stata will most likely either 1) support double quotes in
> a way that is compatible with all SQL servers, or 2) display a better error
> message if the Stata parser doesn't support double quotes.
>
> --Kevin
> [email protected]
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