Moshe, Thanks so much for the added comment, I had fallen into the exact same little syntax pitfall. Your clarification really helped!
Jack Moshe Olshansky-2 wrote: > > 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 <rip...@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@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, >> rip...@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 >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/non-interactive-connection-to-SQL-Server-tp15474256p21758234.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@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.