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Old 06-25-08, 11:01
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Hi all,

To make a long story short, I have 3 databases of phone numbers in a txt format. The problem is the files are between 1.7GB - 2GB.

I have tried importing and opening the file in Excel and Access, but both applications will not open the file. However, I can open the files on my MacBook with no issues, even though it takes a few minutes to load.

If anyone out there can help me open/import these files, maybe with other applications, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

DM
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Old 06-25-08, 11:59
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SQL Server 2005 is a good bet; the express version is free; however you have a limit of 4Gb for a database size with this version.
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Old 06-25-08, 12:14
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can you run SQL server on a Mac?
if you are int he mac world presumably filemaker would be a contender

persoanlly I'd dump the data into a SQL engine.. MySQL probably
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Old 06-30-08, 15:26
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