dbSendUpdate: Send a data-altering SQL statement to the database.

In MonetDB/MonetDB.R: R DBI interface to MonetDB

Description

dbSendUpdate is used to send a data-altering statement to a MonetDB database, e.g. CREATE TABLE or INSERT. As a convenience feature, a placeholder (? character) can be used in the SQL statement, and bound to parameters given in the varargs group before execution. This is especially useful when scripting database updates, since the parameters will be automatically quoted. The dbSendUpdateAsync function is used when the database update is called from finalizers, to avoid very esoteric concurrency problems. Here, the update is not guaranteed

Arguments

conn	A MonetDB.R database connection, created using dbConnect with the MonetDB.R database driver.
statement	A SQL statement to be sent to the database, e.g. 'UPDATE' or 'INSERT'.
...	Parameters to be bound to '?' characters in the query, similar to JDBC.
async	Behave like dbSendUpdateAsync? Defaults to FALSE.

Value

TRUE update was successful

See Also

dbSendQuery

Examples

conn <- dbConnect(MonetDB.R(), "monetdb://localhost/acs")
dbSendUpdate(conn, "CREATE TABLE foo(a INT,b VARCHAR(100))")
dbSendUpdate(conn, "INSERT INTO foo VALUES(?,?)", 42, "bar")

MonetDB/MonetDB.R documentation built on Dec. 31, 2020, 3:18 p.m.