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Re: st: -odbc- and VARCHAR() [was odbc load a large table, hitting max obs limit]


From   "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: -odbc- and VARCHAR() [was odbc load a large table, hitting max obs limit]
Date   Sun, 9 Sep 2012 20:16:56 -0700

I stand corrected. It looks like I can easily import varchars with
Teradata, 64-bit Stata on Linux, and unixodbc as my odbc manager. Some
other formats, like date intervals and spatial/GIS, do give me the
same error as Tashi.

DVM

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Joseph Coveney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dimitriy V. Masterov wrote (excerpted):
>
> You need to recast the varchar variable as something that Stata can understand.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Is that peculiar to MySQL or Unix ODBC drivers or something?  I've never had any
> problems with Stata and VARCHAR() column data types in MS SQL Server databases,
> or even MS Access, for that matter.  Rows of VARCHAR() columns containing text
> longer than 244 characters get automatically truncated, and those Unicode
> characters in NVARCHAR() columns that cannot be coerced into ANSI become
> question marks, but [N]VARCHAR() columns are otherwise read-in without any
> problem.
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
>
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