Re: MySQL/ODBC?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

> Do similar libraries exist for Octave?  Or, what approaches do people use
> to accomplish this goal (wrapping it in a C or PHP/PERL application?)

I wrote two really simple ".oct" functions to query PostgreSQL. This was helped
by the fact that PostgreSQL has a nice and simple C++ API.  The functions are 
still at

     http://eddelbuettel.com/dirk/code/octave-pg.html

Other than that, I have used Octave .m files calling Perl scripts to query the 
db,
massage the output and then read the file back into Octave.

That being said, I now prefer GNU R (http://www.r-project.org) with its  RODBC 
package for data analysis.  

Hope this helps,  Dirk

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