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st: -odbc- and VARCHAR() [was odbc load a large table, hitting max obs limit]
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"Joseph Coveney" <[email protected]>
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st: -odbc- and VARCHAR() [was odbc load a large table, hitting max obs limit]
Date
Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:22:15 +0900
Dimitriy V. Masterov wrote (excerpted):
You need to recast the varchar variable as something that Stata can understand.
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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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