Thank you very much André. I shall try that way.

Greetings.

Walter.





On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:14 AM, André Knappstein <
Knappstein@...> wrote:

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> > Exporting the .DBF to a delimited text file and then importing using an
> > external table would be faster?
>
> Walter,
> a consultant I know has made very good experience with this.
>
> He was regularly importing DBF tables (level 5 and 7) via ODBC.
> I encouraged him to try exporting them to CSV first, then to integrate
> them as external tables. He reported a massive speed gain (2 minutes
> vs. 2 hours).
>
> It's definitely worth a try!
>
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