Re: [R] non-interactive connection to SQL Server
Moshe, Thanks so much for the added comment, I had fallen into the exact same little syntax pitfall. Your clarification really helped! Jack Moshe Olshansky-2 wrote: Yes, it does - thank you! The only thing I forgot (and it took me a while to find this out) was to separate the fields by semicolon, i.e. the correct command is: odbcDriverConnect(driver=SQL Server; database=dataBaseName; wsid=myComputer; server=dataBaseServer; uid=moshe; pwd=moshe) --- Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Moshe Olshansky wrote: Hi everyone, I am afraid that I have already asked this question in the past (or at least I knew an answer to it) but I am unable to do it now. I have an SQL Server data base. I used the GUI interface of odbcDriverConnect to create a .dsn file for this data base and every time I want to connect I invoke odbcDriverConnect() which opens GUI from which I choose my .dsn file and the connection is established. Now I want to do this automatically (without GUI) and all my attempts fail. If I remember correctly the dsn must be a string containing all the connection details but it does not work for me. Clearly it does, as you did that via odbcDriverConnect. Look at the object it returns: it contains the string it used. You can use that directly. Could anybody help, please! Thank you! Moshe. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/non-interactive-connection-to-SQL-Server-tp15474256p21758234.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] non-interactive connection to SQL Server
Yes, it does - thank you! The only thing I forgot (and it took me a while to find this out) was to separate the fields by semicolon, i.e. the correct command is: odbcDriverConnect(driver=SQL Server; database=dataBaseName; wsid=myComputer; server=dataBaseServer; uid=moshe; pwd=moshe) --- Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Moshe Olshansky wrote: Hi everyone, I am afraid that I have already asked this question in the past (or at least I knew an answer to it) but I am unable to do it now. I have an SQL Server data base. I used the GUI interface of odbcDriverConnect to create a .dsn file for this data base and every time I want to connect I invoke odbcDriverConnect() which opens GUI from which I choose my .dsn file and the connection is established. Now I want to do this automatically (without GUI) and all my attempts fail. If I remember correctly the dsn must be a string containing all the connection details but it does not work for me. Clearly it does, as you did that via odbcDriverConnect. Look at the object it returns: it contains the string it used. You can use that directly. Could anybody help, please! Thank you! Moshe. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] non-interactive connection to SQL Server
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Moshe Olshansky wrote: Hi everyone, I am afraid that I have already asked this question in the past (or at least I knew an answer to it) but I am unable to do it now. I have an SQL Server data base. I used the GUI interface of odbcDriverConnect to create a .dsn file for this data base and every time I want to connect I invoke odbcDriverConnect() which opens GUI from which I choose my .dsn file and the connection is established. Now I want to do this automatically (without GUI) and all my attempts fail. If I remember correctly the dsn must be a string containing all the connection details but it does not work for me. Clearly it does, as you did that via odbcDriverConnect. Look at the object it returns: it contains the string it used. You can use that directly. Could anybody help, please! Thank you! Moshe. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
