From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
To: andrea <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tables to DB
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:01:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5rao6f7.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1aay0uoyb.fsf@47-118.eduroam.rwth-aachen.de> (andrea's message of "Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:11:56 +0100")
andrea <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:
> Org tables are great but for visualization and querying maybe databases
> are better, for example sqlite for small amounts of data is very nice
> and powerful.
>
> I found this
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/multitarget-tables.php which I
> haven't tried yet but looks nice.
>
> I would like to have an automatic way to automatically fill some
> database tables from orgmode tables, done maybe automatically when the
> file is saved.
> So the hook should:
> - check for tables with #+ORGTBL line above
> - store the data on the right sqlite table
>
> Rewrite completely the table every time is not a big problem since the
> amount of data is really not big.
>
> Given that I will be able to do nice things with python-sqlite and also
> finally replace this
> http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/
> for book management
>
> Anyone is already doing something like that?
>
In SQL-mode, one can turn on the `electric semilcolon' to send queries
to a database.
Since this is part of emacs, why not try to use it? Maybe this could be
used from Org-mode, too?
Sebastian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-04 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-03 14:11 Tables to DB andrea
2009-12-03 15:43 ` [babel] " Eric Schulte
2009-12-04 10:40 ` andrea
2009-12-04 18:12 ` Dan Davison
2009-12-04 20:01 ` Sebastian Rose [this message]
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