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. Could anybody help, please! Thank you! Moshe.
non-interactive connection to SQL Server
3 messages · Moshe Olshansky, Brian Ripley
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.
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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 <ripley at 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 at 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, ripley at 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, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595