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Re: st: database store
From
Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
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Re: st: database store
Date
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:41:10 +0000
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Argyn Kuketayev
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm looking for the best approach to use stata with data stored in
> relational database?
>
> should i use external tools to download data into flat files, then
> analyse in stata?
> should i use odbc from within stata to load data into memory?
If you know SQL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL) then theres no
reason not to use ODBC and take advantage of the relational nature of
the database directly from Stata. Saves having to -merge- and
-append- individual tables in Stata and recreate the relationships
that existed in the database (as I have to do as the databases I work
with seem to have been designed purely from the data-capture
perspective and its apparently not possible/desirable to permit ODBC
connections, grrr!).
Neil
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