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Spreadsheets and databases: working with multiple data tables and arrays

Description
A database table (or a spreadsheet range) may contain in its different fields (columns) the data for several Mosel arrays and inversely, a Mosel array may correspond to several data tables (ranges). We have here examples of various different cases:

  1. using the odbc driver,
  2. formulated with SQL statements,
  3. using the excel driver,
  4. using the oci driver,
  5. using the xls driver, and
  6. using the csv driver.
for three sets of examples:
  • Reading several arrays from a single database table/spreadsheet range (multicol.mos)
  • Outputting several arrays into a single database table/spreadsheet range (multiout.mos)
  • Reading an array from several tables/ranges (multitab.mos)
Further explanation of this example: Xpress Whitepaper 'Using ODBC and other database interfaces with Mosel', Section 'Examples'.


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multitab.mos

(!*******************************************************
   Mosel Example Problems 
   ======================

   file multitab.mos
   `````````````````
   Reading an array from several data tables.
   Output parts of an array into several tables.
   - Using 'initializations from' with odbc I/O driver -
       
   (c) 2008 Fair Isaac Corporation
       author: S. Heipcke, 2006, rev. May 2017
*******************************************************!)

model "Multiple data sources"
 uses "mmodbc", "mmsystem"

 declarations
  CUST: set of integer
  PERIOD: range
  INCOME,INCOME1,INCOME2,INCOME3: dynamic array(CUST,PERIOD) of real
 end-declarations

 initializations from "multitab.dat"
  INCOME as "COLDAT1"
  INCOME as "COLDAT2"
  INCOME as "COLDAT3"
 end-initializations

 writeln(INCOME)

 setparam("SQLverbose", true)

! Different ways of reading the data from a spreadsheet or database
! CNCT:= 'mmodbc.odbc:multitab.xls'

 CNCT:= 'mmodbc.odbc:multitab.mdb'

! CNCT:= 'mmodbc.odbc:multitab.sqlite'
! CNCT:= 'mmodbc.odbc:DSN=sqlite;DATABASE=multitab.sqlite'

! Method 1: Data in columns, with CUST index value included
 initializations from CNCT
  INCOME1 as 'COLDAT1'
  INCOME1 as 'COLDAT2'
  INCOME1 as 'COLDAT3'
 end-initializations

 writeln("1: ", INCOME1)
 
! Method 2: Data in columns, without CUST index value

 procedure readcol(cust:integer, table:string)
  declarations
   TEMP: array(PERIOD) of real
  end-declarations
 
  initializations from CNCT
   TEMP as table
  end-initializations
  forall(p in PERIOD) INCOME2(cust,p):=TEMP(p)
 end-procedure
 
 forall(c in CUST) readcol(c, "COLDAT"+c+"A") 
 writeln("2: ", INCOME2)
 
! Method 3: Data in rows, without CUST index value

 procedure readrow(cust:integer, table:string)
  declarations
   TEMP: array(1..2,PERIOD) of real
  end-declarations

  initializations from CNCT
   TEMP as 'noindex;'+table
  end-initializations
  forall(p in PERIOD) INCOME3(cust,p):=TEMP(2,p)
 end-procedure
 
 finalize(PERIOD)                       ! The index sets must be known+fixed
 forall(c in CUST) readrow(c, "ROWDAT"+c) 
 writeln("3: ", INCOME3)


! ******** Output an array into several tables ********

 forall(c in CUST)
  initializations to "multitabout.dat"
   evaluation of array(c1=c,p in PERIOD) INCOME1(c1,p) as "COLDAT"+c
  end-initializations

! Create the tables for data output
 fcopy('multitab.mdb','multitabout.mdb')
 CNCTOUT:= 'multitabout.mdb'
! CNCTOUT:= 'multitabout.sqlite'
 SQLconnect(CNCTOUT)
 forall(c in CUST) do
  SQLexecute("drop table COLDAT"+c)
  SQLexecute("create table COLDAT"+c+" (CUST integer,PERIOD integer,INCOME float)")
  SQLexecute("drop table COLDAT"+c+"A")
  SQLexecute("create table COLDAT"+c+"A (PERIOD integer,INCOME float)")
 end-do
 SQLdisconnect

! Method 1: Data in columns, with CUST index value included
 CNCTOUT:= 'mmodbc.odbc:'+CNCTOUT
 forall(c in CUST) do
  initializations to CNCTOUT
   evaluation of array(c1=c,p in PERIOD) INCOME1(c1,p) as "COLDAT"+c
  end-initializations
 end-do

! Method 2: Data in columns, without CUST index value
 forall(c in CUST) do
  initializations to CNCTOUT
   evaluation of array(p in PERIOD) INCOME1(c,p) as "COLDAT"+c+"A"
  end-initializations
 end-do

end-model

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