Native GUI client access to MS-SQL and MySQL We can use Oracle SQL Developer with the jTDS driver to access Microsoft SQL Server. Note: jTDS version 1.3.0 did not work for me; I had to use version 1.2.6. Detailed instructions can be found here. We can use MySQL Workbench to access MySQL server. Setup is… Read more »
Just wanted to note that for traditional SQL implementations (e.g., MySQL, MS-SQL), the Group By statement used to aggregate a variable by certain variable(s) returns 1 row for each group. When a column that is not unique within a group is also selected, then the row that’s returned is determined somehow by the DB software…. Read more »
My server’s been going down quite often recently (once a week). I believe it is a problem with the disk. Usually rebooting the server makes everything (including my blog) work again. Recently, I got the message “error establishing a database connection” even after the reboot. After many tries, this worked for me. Basically, my options… Read more »
This post is a followup to a recent post I wrote. The issue at hand is that data are stored on a SQL server (Microsoft Server 2005 or version 9 of MS SQL Server to be exact) and that I would like to send queries from a command line interface, either from Mac OS X… Read more »
Unfortunately in my current line of work, I’ve been pulling data from MS SQL Server. My current workflow involves remotely logging into a windows machine, and from there, using the sql server software (MS SQL Server Management Studio) to issue queries and save data. This especially sucked in that I couldn’t write in the query… Read more »