Walter Meester
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>>>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.
Except for the TYPE XL8 SHEET format then.
>IMPORT is legacy behavior that dates back to dBase. (When was the last time you saw a SYLK file?)
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