Re: Octave and databases

[Andy Buckle]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Pohlen, Timo <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> I tried to connect Octave to a MySQL database - but all efforts were in
> vain. In spite of looking through manuals and tutorials on the internet, it
> was not possible to establish a connection that worked. In several forums I
> found comments that the database connectivity of Octave is not perfect. My
> question is: Is it possible at all to connect Octave to a MySQL database (or
> another database)? And if so, who can I establish a connection and retrieve
> data?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dr. Timo Pohlen
> Adviser

I use the command line interface isql with sybase (from octave with
system call). then I parse the resulting text file and do further
processing using octave. I see MySQL has a CLI called mysql.

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