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st: ODBC import
From
Janet Hill <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: ODBC import
Date
Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:57:16 +0000 (GMT)
I need to import some large tables from Access 2013 to Stata 13.1 and I have been using the following command:
clear
odbc load,exec(`"SELECT Demographics.*, Visit.* FROM Demographics INNER JOIN Visit ON Demographics.Hospid = Visit.HosPid"')///
lower allstring connectionstring(`"Driver=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb);DBQ=C:\Students\September.accdb"')
This fails with the error:
hospid already defined
r(110);
and this occurs because Stata does not prefix the column name with the table name. I can explicitly add each table.column, which works on a small dataset,but because there are 15 columns in one table and 30 in the other this becomes unwieldy and prone to typing errors. Other tables may be larger.
I would be grateful for any suggestions on how to solve this problem.
Many thanks,
Janet
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