I've gone through several iterations with my idea of best do-file practices, and I'm sure I'll go through some more before I retire. But right now, here's where I stand: My do-files start with a handful of header commands that I found useful at various times. They might look something like this: clear set more [...]

In my oldest post about the odbc load command I mentioned that you can pretty easily read data from MS Access into Stata, and even execute SQL commands from within Stata, but I dismissed the whole thing a bit too lightly. A recent look on Google Analytics showed that some people came here looking for [...]