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RE: st: odbc load SQL


From   tashi lama <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: odbc load SQL
Date   Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:27:18 +0000

the error you are getting looks like to me that you screwed up your query.  However, try this if you are trying to open a table 

 

odbc query database_name  * this will list you all the tables in database

odbc desc table1    * this will open up the table and I am hoping this is what you are looking for

 

if you want to run, 

 

 

odbc query database_name

odbc load, exec("your query goes here")

 

 

Good luck,

Tashi


> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:15:36 +0200
> Subject: Re: st: odbc load SQL
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> 
> The strange thing is that when I type
> odbc load var1 var2, table("`table1'")
> Stata tells me
> table() or exec() is required
> even though I had in fact specified table.
> Or did I somehow get the syntax of it wrong?
> 
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Jen Zhen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear Statalisters,
> >
> > I am trying to load a dataset (or, for size reasons, parts of it) from
> > SQL into Stata.
> >
> > I got as far as typing
> > local db "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 5.1
> > Driver};SERVER=my_server;DATABASE=my_database;UID=jenzhen;PWD=jenzhenspassword;"
> > local sql "SHOW tables"
> > odbc load, exec("`sql'") conn("`db'") clear
> > br
> > which shows me a list of all tables in the database "my_database":
> > Tables_in_my_database", "table1" and "table2".
> >
> > However, I don't manage to open one of these tables. I typed
> > odbc load, table(table1) conn("`db'") clear
> > which I thought should load table1 into memory, but Stata then just tells me:
> >
> >
> > The ODBC driver reported the following diagnostics
> > [MySQL][ODBC 5.1 Driver][mysqld-5.1.30]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 'table1' at line 1
> > SQLSTATE=42000
> >
> > Might anyone be able to tell me what I'm getting wrong here?
> >
> > Thanks so much and best regards,
> > JZ
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