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Old 09-23-07, 06:37
sgkhari sgkhari is offline
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DBF with 503 fields

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I have a DBF with 503 fields. Just I got this no of fields when I open it thru dBase V. Even I am able to oven as a Non dbase file and in read only mode. Just I want to know how it is possible to create such huge DBF. I also want to query the DBF with VB or VFP. Anyone please help me in this regard.

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Old 10-03-07, 11:49
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The DBF file was probably created using Clipper or a similar tool. I think you can open DBF files with that many fields using FoxPro.

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Old 10-04-07, 00:05
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Dear Mr. Pat,

I have tried to open using FoxPro and VFP. I am getting an error message as not a valid table. Which version of FoxPro opens that dbf with so many fields.

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Hari
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Old 10-04-07, 08:08
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I thought that Visual FoxPro 9.0 would open a DBF with that many fields, but I may be wrong.

You may need to find someone that still has the (MS-DOS based) tools that will correctly access that kind of file, and ask them to move the contents (data) to some mutually agreed format such as XML, CSV, or tab-delimited.

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Old 10-04-07, 11:47
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You may also be able to import it directly into excel, using one of the foxpro/dbase ODBC drivers, and then save it as a csv ...
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