Using an existing ODBC con object to connect to remote db

[sdadsetan-concert]

Prework

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Proposal

We've configured our Workbench to use an ODBC connection which means that the database details are configured on the system and the user really just needs to provide their username and pw credentials to connect to a database. When connecting, a con object is created. For those that are interested in using pointblank for accessing remote databases, it would be nice if the con object could be used in db_tbl rather than have to specify all the database properties.

pseudo-code

db_tbl(con, table = "schema.table", ...)