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a set of functions for interacting with databases When possible, it's probably preferable to use a _DbConnection.DbConnect_ object
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Imports: RDConfig, ExcelWrapper, DbResultSet, RandomAccessDbResultSet, DbModule, sys, types, string, DbInfo
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gets a set of data from a table
**Arguments**
- dBase: database name
- table: table name
- fieldString: a string with the names of the fields to be extracted,
this should be a comma delimited list
- user and password:
- join: a join clause (omit the verb 'join')
**Returns**
- a list of the data
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a more flexible method to get a set of data from a table
**Arguments**
- fields: a string with the names of the fields to be extracted,
this should be a comma delimited list
- where: the SQL where clause to be used with the DB query
- removeDups indicates the column which should be used to screen
out duplicates. Only the first appearance of a duplicate will
be left in the dataset.
**Returns**
- a list of the data
**Notes**
- EFF: this isn't particularly efficient
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Pulls the contents of a database and puts them in an Excel worksheet
**Arguments**
- dBase: the name of the DB file to be used
- table: the name of the table to query
- fields: the fields to select with the SQL query
- join: the join clause of the SQL query
(e.g. 'join foo on foo.bar=base.bar')
- where: the where clause of the SQL query
(e.g. 'where foo = 2' or 'where bar > 17.6')
- wrapper: an _Excel.ExcelWrapper.ExcelWrapper_ to be used
in interacting with Excel
- user: the username for DB access
- password: the password to be used for DB access
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Pulls the contents of a database and makes a deliminted text file from them
**Arguments**
- dBase: the name of the DB file to be used
- table: the name of the table to query
- fields: the fields to select with the SQL query
- join: the join clause of the SQL query
(e.g. 'join foo on foo.bar=base.bar')
- where: the where clause of the SQL query
(e.g. 'where foo = 2' or 'where bar > 17.6')
- wrapper: an _Excel.ExcelWrapper.ExcelWrapper_ to be used
in interacting with Excel
- user: the username for DB access
- password: the password to be used for DB access
**Returns**
- the CSV data (as text)
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finds the types of the columns in _data_ if nullMarker is not None, elements of the data table which are equal to nullMarker will not count towards setting the type of their columns. |
This is kind of crude hack to automagically determine the types
of columns in the active Excel sheet
**Arguments**
- wrapper: the _ExcelWrapper_ to be used in interacting with Excel
- nullMarker: (optional) if this is not None, elements of the
data table which are equal to nullMarker will not count towards
setting the type of their columns.
**Returns**
- a list of the types of each column
**Note**
- we make the assumption that there are only three possible types: int,
float and string.
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*For Internal Use* removes illegal characters from column headings and truncates those which are too long. |
returns a list of SQL type strings |
*For Internal Use* (drops and) creates a table and then inserts the values |
convert the active excel worksheet into a database.
this isn't as smooth or slick as the conversion the other way... sad.
**Arguments**
- dBase: the name of the DB to use
- table: the name of the table to create/overwrite
- wrapper: the _ExcelWrapper_ to use
- user: the user name to use in connecting to the DB
- password: the password to use in connecting to the DB
- maxColLabelLen: the maximum length a column label should be
allowed to have (truncation otherwise)
- keyCol: the column to be used as an index for the db
**Notes**
- if _table_ already exists, it is destroyed before we write
the new data
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loads the contents of the text file into a database.
**Arguments**
- dBase: the name of the DB to use
- table: the name of the table to create/overwrite
- inF: the file like object from which the data should
be pulled (must support readline())
- delim: the delimiter used to separate fields
- user: the user name to use in connecting to the DB
- password: the password to use in connecting to the DB
- maxColLabelLen: the maximum length a column label should be
allowed to have (truncation otherwise)
- keyCol: the column to be used as an index for the db
**Notes**
- if _table_ already exists, it is destroyed before we write
the new data
- we assume that the first row of the file contains the column names
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FIX: at the moment this is a hack |
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