SPARQL

[Konrad Zdeb]

Please excuse my ignorance but is there Stata equivalent of R SPARQL package? Findit does not appear to return useful results.

[Nick Cox]

Please give us a brief summary of what SPARQL means. I started reading and then decided that's your job! My initial guess is something like SQL, but SPARQL.

[Dave Airey]

Nope. Just the ODBC command. If you get that working on a Mac let me know. I don't think using iODBC on the Mac is easy any more on Mavericks. I have managed to use R to connect to mySQL or SQLlite databases without issues, but not Stata. It would be nice if Stata updated their FAQ on this for Mac 10.9.x users.

[wbuchanan]

I've not had any issues using ODBC to communicate with an MS SQL server from a MAC running Mavericks, but did need to purchase a third party odbc driver to do so. Maybe it'd be nicer if Stata were able to support multiple data objects in memory simultaneously; then we could treat the data objects like tables in a relational database if needed/desired.

[Dave Airey]

Just curious... what drivers did you use?

[Konrad Zdeb]

Please give us a brief summary of what SPARQL means. I started reading and then decided that's your job! My initial guess is something like SQL, but SPARQL.

Of course, SPARQL is simply an RDF query language. It can be said that SPARQL is SQL for the data stored in RDF. More interestingly SPARQL is being introduced as a standard to query governmental data. Ideally, I think it would be extremely useful to have equivalent of the World Bank wbopendata for the Open Data Scotland project.