[R] RODBC and sqlColumns

[Andreas Hary]

Try append = F, that works for me.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Stabler" <bstabler at ptvamerica.com>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [R] RODBC and sqlColumns


> Ok, I understand that.  Then, how do I get the columns for a table that
> is housed in a schema?  And, second, why does the following not work (or
> at least partially work).  It creates the new table in the X schema but
> then does not populate the table (and returns a sqlColumns() error.
>
> sqlSave(db,x,"X.test",T,F)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ben Stabler
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:59 AM
> To: Ben Stabler
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] RODBC and sqlColumns
>
>
> AFAIK "." is not a valid part of an SQL table name. I think the help
> files
> are perfectly clear as to what is supported:
>
>  sqtable: character: a database table name accessible from the
>           connected dsn.
>
> Why do you think "X.test" is a `database table name'?
>
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Ben Stabler wrote:
>
>> I have a Postgres database that I am connecting to with the Postgres
>> ODBC driver on Windows XP in R 2.1.0.  In the database is a database
>> with two schemas (public and X).  With RODBC (1.1-4) , I can connect
>> to the database and get the tables with sqlTables(db).  I can query
>> tables in the schema with sqlQuery("SELECT * FROM X.test").  However,
>> I can't get the columns in table X.test with sqlColumns(db,"X.test")
>> //it returns
>>
>> Error in sqlColumns(db, "X.test") : 'X.test': table not found on
>> channel
>>
>> If I do
>>
>> sqlColumns(db, "test") it returns
>> [1] TABLE_QUALIFIER   TABLE_OWNER       TABLE_NAME        COLUMN_NAME
>> DATA_TYPE
>> [6] TYPE_NAME         PRECISION         LENGTH            SCALE
>> RADIX
>> [11] NULLABLE          REMARKS           COLUMN_DEF
> SQL_DATA_TYPE
>> SQL_DATETIME_SUB
>> [16] CHAR_OCTET_LENGTH ORDINAL_POSITION  IS_NULLABLE
> DISPLAY_SIZE
>> FIELD_TYPE
>> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
>>
>> But there is no test table defined anywhere else but the X schema.  If
>
>> I do sqlSave(db,aDataFrame,"X.test",T,F), it says test already
>> defined. If I change the aDataFrame to be different than the fields
>> actually in the data, then R starts to create a new table but returns
>>
>> Error in sqlColumns(db, "X.test") : 'X.test': table not found on
>> channel
>>
>> It seems to be having problems with what is returned by the
>> columns.....since
>>
>> Error in sqlSave(db, aDataFrame, "X.test", T, F) :
>>        [RODBC] ERROR: Could not SQLExecDirectS1000 7 ERROR:  relation
>> "test" already exists
>>
>> but if I change the input table to be different....then R can create
>> the table, but fails to populate it.  I checked the db in PgAdmin and
>> the table is created by the sqlSave call.  All this stuff works if I
>> don't use a schema "schema.table".  So it appears there is something
>> wrong in some place dealing with understanding the columns for tables
>> in schemas.
>>
>> Any ideas?  Any help would be much appreciated.  Thank you.
>
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