Re: Importing tab-delimited text files or connecting to ODBC

[Maks Romih]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:

> Maks Romih <maksr@snt.si> writes:
> 
> > If someone of you had similar problems and have some idea, I
> > would be greatly thankful for any suggestions.
> 
> check out EDB (latest is 1.26p2), in dir:
> 
>   http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/edb/
> 
> particularly the files examples/names.{dat,edb,fmt} and
> README, which has instructions on how to build and load
> things for experimentation (w/o need for "make install").
> 
> if you find problems w/ EDB, please let me know about them
> so that i can fix them (or write excuses for their persistence
> in the fine manual ;-) for the next release.
> 
> thi

Very interesting! I was sure that emacs should have something about
databases and I searched many times about it on the internet but never
found anything useful. It's somewhat hidden in the myriad of emacs
packages.

I will take a look, of course, however I'm afraid that I still won't
find what I ask at the moment. Edb seems more a standalone database
but I want to have some tool to connect to or import from other data
sources, especially relational DBMS-es, excel, MS Access, etc.

Thank you for suggestion.

Maks.