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Re: Making the most, or over-thinking it - SQL for uploads

On 8/30/2016 11:15 AM, Duane Scott wrote:

I can access my DB2 files on the IBM I and display data, but haven't figured out the set up to access text files on a PC (using SQL).

Generally speaking, you can't.
Think of SQL as a client-server relationship.
There's a client, which accepts SQL statements like SELECT COLUMN FROM
TABLE, and there's a server which the client connects to, and acts upon
that statement.

On a typical Windows PC, there's no server to handle the SQL statement.
So if you're talking about a regular .txt file which you can edit with
Notepad, you aren't going to use SQL to do anything with it.

On the other hand, if you have DB2 or MySQL or SQL Server loaded and
running on that PC, and the file is part of a schema inside the
database, you can connect to it if you have the appropriate JDBC driver.

What's the setup on the PC?


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