[Gretl-users] Must I always know the number of rows in advance when making an ODBC query?

From gretl, if I run ? open dsn=polls user=phl --odbc Connected to ODBC data source 'polls' ? data dem rep query="select democrat,republican from generic" --odbc ? print dem The symbol 'dem' is undefined However, if I precede the data command with "smpl 1 228", gretl imports all 228 rows. Is there a way to import data from SQL that doesn't require knowing the number of observations in advance? I'd like just to point gretl at a database, give it a query like the above, and have it populate the database with all the records it finds? Is that not possible? It works like that when importing data from CSV files. Thanks! Peter Dr. Peter H. Lemieux politicsbythenumbers.org politicsbythenumbers(a)gmail.com @PeterHLemieux