>>>There are better ways to get to external data than hard-coded IMPORT. They've been telling us this for years.
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>>I must have missed those talks. Do you have *any* reference? I'd really appreciate that.
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>I guess you must've missed 10 years of marketing materials. ;-)
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NO Microsoft products released in the last 10 years have implemented hard-coded reading of external file formats. That's what ODBC is for, and OLE-DB.
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>IMPORT is legacy behavior that dates back to dBase. (When was the last time you saw a SYLK file?)
This is rubbish. (Don't take this personally :)
The documentation is full of 'Included for backward compatibility' remarks. No such text applies to the IMPORT command.
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