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Syntax for opening .dbf via ODBC
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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01366314
Message ID:
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>>I am having tough time figuring how to connect to a .DBF/.DBT file via ODBC driver. This is an example of the syntax I tried which give me an error. What am I missing?
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>>pnConnect = SQLSTRINGCONNECT(Driver={Microsoft dBASE Driver (*.dbf)};DriverID=277;Dbq=c:\mydbpath;)	
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>>Thank you in advance for any help
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>The last ODBC driver for VFP was for VFP6 SP5. If your tables are created with latter versions you must use VFP OLEDB or you could try:
>http://www.codebase.com/products/sql/odbc/?pid=google-api-odbc_fox_a1
>(I didn't)

The .dbf/.dbt tables were created by some older version of non-xBase application. Thank you for the link to codebase.
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