Step 0: Install the ODBC driver
- Download and install the iODBC driver manager. The next step will fail if this isn't installed first.
- Download and install the ODBC driver.
Step 1: Set up ODBC driver
See these instructions. My ODBC configuration (~/.odbc.ini
) looks like:
[ODBC Data Sources] mysql = MySQL ODBC 5.3 ANSI Driver [ODBC] Trace = 0 TraceAutoStop = 0 TraceFile = TraceLibrary = [mysql] Driver = /usr/local/lib/libmyodbc5a.so Description = desc here SERVER = localhost PORT = 3306 USER = root PASSWORD = passwordhere DATABASE = databasehere
Make sure your driver location is correct. It could also be something like /usr/local/mysql-connector-odbc-5.3.7-macos10.12-x86-64bit/lib/libmyodbc5a.so
.
Step 2: Make a ODBC call from Stata
For example:
clear set odbcdriver ansi odbc list // Option 1 odbc load, table("tablename") dsn("mysql") clear noquote // Option 2 odbc load, exec("select * from tablename") dsn("mysql") clear noquote
Using a plugin is another option, but I haven't tried this.
Update: Loading in SQL from an external file
This allows you to do something like:
cd "/path/to/your/folder" clear loadsql using your-sql.sql, dsn(mysql)
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