Re: st: mysql to stata

["Joseph Coveney" <jcoveney@bigplanet.com>]

Tyler Frazier wrote:

I then run the following command

. odbc load, dsn("accra") table("annual_employment_control_totals")

but get this error

The ODBC driver reported the following diagnostics
[MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver][mysqld-5.1.48-community]You have an error in your
SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for
the right syntax to use near '"annual_employment_control_totals"' at line 1
SQLSTATE=42000
r(682);

I double checked the username and pwd -- looks right

any ideas?

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A couple:

1. Try appending -sqlshow- to your -odbc load- command in order to see just what

   Stata is passing to MySQL in its call.  You can inspect the SQL statement 
   directly that way to see whether Stata went amiss in MySQL's peculiar syntax 
   requirements.  You might need to omit double quotes around the table name, or

   something.

2. Try -odbc load, exec("SELECT * FROM annual_employment_control_totals;") ///
   dsn(accra)- to see whether MySQL finds it copacetic.

Joseph Coveney


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