Daniel Mueller wrote:
Two -odbc- questions (using an up-to-date Stata and Win XP):
1. Is it possible to load queries done in MS access into Stata? I am able to
read in all the tables using -odbc-, but can't see the MS access queries
after -odbc query-. I tried to insert the sql statement that generates the
queries with:
. odbc load, exec("sql.txt") dialog(complete) clear
but receive error r(682).
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2. Did anybody find out how to transfer the variable description from MS
access as labels into Stata using -odbc-? (I found an older posting that
assumes this to be "a deficiency in Access drivers"
(http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-05/msg00117.html). Any news on
that?
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1. "sql.txt" seems to be a file containing SQL statements and not an SQL
statement. -odbc load, exec()- is expecting a single SQL statement and not a
file name.
For your purposes I believe that you can think of your Access "query" as
equivalent to an SQL view. In that case, you can first issue the SQL statement
CREATE VIEW from Stata via -odbc exec- with your Access query as the argument,
and then go through the view you just created and load the result table into
Stata via -odbc load- in the usual manner.
2. As I recall, column descriptions in Access are accessible only via Visual
Basic or Visual Basic for Applications.
Joseph Coveney
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