Re: [Gretl-users] ODBC troubles
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Chris wrote:
> That's ok. It's about time for a Microsoft product to screw me
> over again; I was just starting to think Microsoft products were
> decent and maybe I was wrong to be a linux user at home for the
> last decade;)
Well, I don't want to start a flamefest here, but I don't see how
one could possibly be wrong to use linux.
Chris: it may be a good idea to set up a linux box (maybe even a VM may be
enough) with MySQL or whatever else you like and use a fake database with
the same structure as the one you're querying to tell gretl bugs from the
ones on the DBMS side.
> As a side note, do you know if anyone is working on updating the
> import features to allow multiple variable imports?
Nobody's working on that, that I know of. But it's not too hard
to replicate your query string with modification so as to grab as
many variables as you need.
True. In the future, it may be nice to provide the functionality to import
more than one series at once, but it doesn't sound high priority to me. Do
you agree, Allin?
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti