Re: st: Loading long string variables (from SQL) into Stata

[Jen Zhen <jenzhen99@gmail.com>]

The ideal thing would be if it was somehow possible to split the
variables upon loading,
or to load only the first x characters once and load only the second x
characters the second time etc,
but I guess if any splitting can only be done after loading then there
seems to be no way around having to do the adjustment already in
SQL...


On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> -compress- can do nothing to help and not just for the reason you
> mention, that the variables in Stata were truncated on input.
>
> -compress- will only compress variables from one storage type to a
> more compact storage type when that is possible without loss of
> information. But the longer strings could not be variables to start
> with and in any case there would be loss of information.
>
> Nick
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:41 PM, tashi lama <ltashi32@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I would also like to find the answer. There is _compress but I am not sure it will be any help since the columns are already truncated before it loads. _compress seems to be helpful once the columns are successfully loaded and you want to save the memory.
>
> By the way, if you are running stata in unix, did you have any problem
> loading sql columns with type varchar? I am having an issue while
> loading columns with type varchar.
>
> From: jenzhen99@gmail.com
>
>>> I`m loading some variables from an SQL database into Stata using the 2
>>> lines of code given below.
>>> One of them is a very long string variable that gets cut off when
>>> loaded into Stata. Is there a way to either increase the maximum
>>> length of string variables allowed in Stata, or to automatically split
>>> each string at whatever is the maximum number of symbols and put the
>>> rest into further string variables?
>>> Thanks so much and best regards,
>>> JZ
>>>
>>> local sql "SELECT var1, var2, var3 FROM database WHERE var1>5"
>>> odbc load, exec("`sql'") conn("`db'")
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