db.execute(1)

NAME
db.execute - Execute any SQL statement.

KEYWORDS
database, SQL

SYNOPSIS
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db.execute [-i] [input=filename] [driver=string] [database=string]

  Flags:

-i  Ignore SQL errors and continue

  Parameters:

input=filename
    File containing SQL statements

driver=string
    Driver name Options: dbf,pg,ogr

database=string
    Database name

DESCRIPTION
db.execute allows the user to execute SQL statements.

NOTES
If parameters for database connection are already set with db.connect, they are taken as default values and do not need to be specified each time.

If you have a large number of SQL commands to process, it is much much faster to place all the SQL statements into a text file and use db.execute's input file parameter than it is to process each statement individually in a loop. If multiple instruction lines are given, each SQL line must end with a semicolon.

Please see the individual sql driver pages for how to create a new database.

EXAMPLES
Create a new table with columns 'cat' and 'soiltype':
echo 'create table soils (cat integer, soiltype varchar(10) )' | db.execute

Create a new table using a file with SQL statements:
db.execute driver=odbc database=g60test input=file.sql

Insert new row into attribute table:
echo "INSERT INTO nobugs (id,name,east_gb,north_gb) values (30,'Ala',1657340,5072301)" | db.execute

Update attribute entries to new value based on SQL rule:
echo "UPDATE roads SET travelcost=5 WHERE cat=1" | db.execute

Update attribute entries to new value based on SQL rule:
echo "UPDATE dourokukan SET testc=50 WHERE testc is NULL" | db.execute

Add new column to attribute table:
echo "ALTER TABLE roads ADD COLUMN length double" | db.execute

Drop table (not supported by all drivers)
echo "DROP TABLE fmacopy" | db.execute

Update attribute with multiple SQL instructions in file (e.g., file.sql, instruction line must end with a semicolon):
UPDATE roads SET travelcost=5 WHERE cat=1;
UPDATE roads SET travelcost=2 WHERE cat=2;

cat file.sql | db.execute

SEE ALSO
db.columns, db.describe, db.drivers, db.droptable, db.login, db.select, db.tables, GRASS SQL interface

AUTHOR
CERL

Last changed: $Date: 2006/05/08 07:26:42 $

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