Subject | Re: File conversion |
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Author | gerbreown@mindspring.com |
Post date | 2000-12-01T20:04:36Z |
If you click on the "Files" option on the left of the eGroups screen
it will take you to a files area and there is a button there to
"Upload files."
It sounds like your routine is something that a lot of people will be
able to use...
Gerald S. Brown
it will take you to a files area and there is a button there to
"Upload files."
It sounds like your routine is something that a lot of people will be
able to use...
Gerald S. Brown
--- In IBObjects@egroups.com, dennis@a... wrote:
> At 12:00 PM 12/01/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >If you don't have that, there are lots of tools that spit out SQL
from your
> >PDOX databases. data.
> >
> >Another thing you can do is use the TBatchMove component with the
BDE in
> >even the Pro version of Delphi and move each table separately.
> >
> >I would like to get my TIB_Import component so that it knows how to
read a
> >.DB file but I'm not there yet.
>
>
> Jason:
>
> I had mentioned last summer that I had written a utility that does
as follows:
>
> 1. Allows user to select a set of target *.db/dbf files.
> 2. For each *.dbf in the list it
> a. Parses out the field names, field length, field types
> b. Creates a new table in the InterBase database with the
appropriate fields
> c. Generates a parameterized INSERT statement
> d. Inserts all of the records from the *.dbf
>
> This does not use the BDE or any other intermediary.
>
> It manages fieldname conflicts with IB reserved words. I have only
used it
> with IB 5.6 and it makes no consideration of dialects and other
possible
> IB6 issues.
> It is directly from the dbf binary to InterBase via TIB_DSQL. It
extracts
> the fieldnames and datatypes from the dbf header.
>
> It works very nicely for me.
>
> I will send a ZIP archive with the code to you directly (since I
can't
> attach it to this message) for your use as you wish in connection
with
> IBObjects...
>
>
> Dennis McFall