Today the Stata Corp. blog outlined a new feature introduced to Stata 11.1 that allows one to connect to an ODBC database without setting up a DSN. This is a nice addition and simplifies the process of loading ODBC data for those one-off projects. The blog post explains how to connect to database running on [...]

Although MySQL is normally thought of as the relational database management system that many websites are built on, I’ve found it to be pretty useful for many non-web tasks. Some advantages to using MySQL is that it’s cross platform so I can use it on my Linux and Windows computers and the availability of the [...]