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Connecting to remote free table dir... options?
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26/07/2011 10:57:36
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Web
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Thread ID:
01519191
Message ID:
01519234
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42
>I'm tasked with SELECTing (only) from a FoxPro database that lives on a different network. I'm unclear on how to get this data into my SQL Server database locally... I'm using SSIS.
>
>1) Direct table reference using OLEdb driver... I can get this to work ONLY if the VFP database is living on my network.

You have to have access to a table in order to use VFP ODBC driver or VFP OLE DB provider

>2) FTP the .dbf's locally and then use 1)

Sure

>3) Can I use OPENQUERY with the remot machine's IP address? Will I need to emulate a user on the VFP machine? Can someone post syntax for this?

See 1)

>4) LInked Server? Can somone post the command used to set up the linked server for a REMOTE machine if this is possible?

See 1)

>
--sb--
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