[R] RODBC: sqlQuery is successful, but a similar sqlFetch returns error

[Prof Brian Ripley]

'.' is invalid in an SQL table name.  I don't know what driver you are 
using (you seem very reluctant to tell us anything useful about your 
DBMS), but dbo.vwC1198_2006_RawData_With_CMPL_EXCL probably means table 
vwC1198_2006_RawData_With_CMPL_EXCL in database dbo, and that is valid as 
part of SQL, but not in your usage in sqlFetch.

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Ben Fairbank wrote:

> Greetings guRus --
>
>
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> I have successfully queried a large (24,445 rows by 281 cols.) in-house
> database using the following RODBC query (without the line breaks)
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> testout <- sqlQuery(channel, "select idSchedule,EXCL_Total from
> dbo.vwC1198_2006_RawData_With_CMPL_EXCL")
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> This returns a dataframe of 24445 rows and two columns (as intended),
> but the following command
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> testout <-
> sqlFetch(channel,"dbo.vwC1198_2006_RawData_With_CMPL_EXCL",colnames =
> TRUE,rownames = "idSchedule")
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> returns the error message
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>
>
> in odbcTableExists(channel, sqtable) :
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>        'dbo.vwC1198_2006_RawData_With_CMPL_EXCL': table not found on
> channel
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> The value of channel did not change between the two commands.
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> Based on the help files for sqlFetch and sqlQuery, it is not clear to me
> why one command would find the table and the other would not.  I am
> running R 2.4.1 on a Windows XP pro machine with 2 gig of memory.
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> Thanks for any suggestions or hints,
>
>
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> Ben Fairbank
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