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Created March 4, 2013 05:06
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Library and steps to read data from a relational data base into R
library(RODBC)
df = read.table("../01 raw_data/<file_name>.txt",sep='|',header=TRUE,nrow = xxxx)
dbname <- odbcDriverConnect('driver={SQL Server};server=<server_name>;database=<database_name>;trusted_connection=true')
df <- sqlQuery(dbname, "select * from <table_name>")
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