Re: Octave and Database connectivity

[richard]

Hi Andrew, 
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:01:10AM -0700, ahowe42 wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> I am scoping out a fairly substantial project which needs a) an
> array-oriented computation engine and b) a database.  Free and/or FOSS is
> very much preferred, because I don't expect to have the money for expensive
> licenses.  I am thinking of Octave and MySQL.  Does anyone have example code
> for running SQL queries against MySQL from Octave?  Thanks.
> 
> Andrew
> 
I'd agree with the other posters comments. I presently use something 
similar, but the program is written in perl, and this manages the 
extraction of data from the database (postgres), writes this to a 
file, then perl calls octave to read, process and return the data, and 
perl then pushes the data back into the database. 

Grotesque is a fair description of the process, and I'd hesitate to 
recommend it as a way forward. 

regards

Richard A Lough