Naive questions about contacting databases

[Andre Garzia]

On Mar 8, 2004, at 8:20 AM, Mathewson wrote:

> 1. From RR how can I access a database and display the
> contents of its tables/fields in RR ?

You can use the Database Query Builer tool to help you create your 
database connections and queries. It's pretty straitgh forward. Just 
launch the tutorial from the built-in documentation.


>
> 2. From RR how can I access a remote data base and . . . ?

That's also answered in the tutorial. You can access remote mysql 
databases for example...

>
> 3. How can I export processed data in a more useful format
> than a tab-delimited text document?
>

you can use a query to retrieve all data them process it yourself so 
that it ends up the way you wish. Use standard text processing 
functions to fiddle with it... what do you have in mind?

I make extensive use of DB in my data junior app (see 
http://www.soapdog.org under projects), but not all my practices are 
elegant. RevGurus here got much more wisdom than I.

Cheers
Andre


> Grateful for all help!
>
> Richmond Mathewson
>
>
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