Thanks for your suggestion Marc. I saw that on some Oracle-related web-sites, but something in the way RODBC functions verify the existance of a table does not accept that naming structure. For example:
> sqlColumns(eids, "EIDS.TEST_ARTCL_INST") Error in sqlColumns(eids, "EIDS.TEST_ARTCL_INST") : 'EIDS.TEST_ARTCL_INST': table not found on channel On 11/7/07, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:15 +0000, Mark Lyman wrote: > > Is there a way to get a table in a certain schema? The Oracle database I > am > > using has a table by the same name in two different schemas. This > creates > > problems in sqlUpdate because to sqlUpdate there are duplicate columns. > The > > following is part of the output of sqlColumns: > > > > sqlColumns(eids, "TEST_ARTCL_INST")[,1:4] > > TABLE_CAT TABLE_SCHEM TABLE_NAME COLUMN_NAME > > 1 EIDS TEST_ARTCL_INST CHANNEL_ID > > 2 EIDS TEST_ARTCL_INST ARTICLE_TEST_ID > > 3 EIDS TEST_ARTCL_INST CHANNEL_OLD_ID > > 4 EIDS TEST_ARTCL_INST FREQ_FM_CNT > > 5 EIDS TEST_ARTCL_INST RANGE_MAX_CNT > > 6 EIDS TEST_ARTCL_INST RANGE_MIN_CNT > > 7 EIDS TEST_ARTCL_INST TYPE_GAGE_ID > > 8 EIDS TEST_ARTCL_INST DRAWING_TYPE_ID > > 9 EIDS TEST_ARTCL_INST DRAWING_ID > > 10 EIDS TEST_ARTCL_INST RATE_SPECIFIED_CNT > > 11 EIDS TEST_ARTCL_INST ACCURACY_RQRD_CNT > > 12 EIDS TEST_ARTCL_INST UNIT_MSR_ID > > 13 EIDS_APP TEST_ARTCL_INST CHANNEL_ID > > 14 EIDS_APP TEST_ARTCL_INST ARTICLE_TEST_ID > > 15 EIDS_APP TEST_ARTCL_INST CHANNEL_OLD_ID > > 16 EIDS_APP TEST_ARTCL_INST FREQ_FM_CNT > > 17 EIDS_APP TEST_ARTCL_INST RANGE_MAX_CNT > > 18 EIDS_APP TEST_ARTCL_INST RANGE_MIN_CNT > > 19 EIDS_APP TEST_ARTCL_INST TYPE_GAGE_ID > > 20 EIDS_APP TEST_ARTCL_INST DRAWING_TYPE_ID > > 21 EIDS_APP TEST_ARTCL_INST DRAWING_ID > > 22 EIDS_APP TEST_ARTCL_INST RATE_SPECIFIED_CNT > > 23 EIDS_APP TEST_ARTCL_INST ACCURACY_RQRD_CNT > > 24 EIDS_APP TEST_ARTCL_INST UNIT_MSR_ID > > > > Mark Lyman > > Typically, with a schema in Oracle, you use: > > schema.object > > syntax. So something like (in SQL): > > select * from EIDS.TEST_ARTCL_INST; > > would be different than: > > select * from EIDS_APP.TEST_ARTCL_INST; > > > So in RODBC, prefix any occurrence of a table name with 'SchemaName.' as > may be appropriate. The same syntax is used for views. > > The nuance is that in Oracle, all users typically have a schema that is > their UserID. When you login to Oracle and just use the table name, your > current UserID schema prefix is 'implied'. > > However, if you want to access other objects within schema created by > other users, you need to explicitly use the schema prefix. You of course > also need appropriate access privileges for other schema that you have > not created. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.