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Convert access tables to VFP
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Visual FoxPro
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Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Thread ID:
00461625
Message ID:
00461659
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>I need to get MS Access tables into VFP. Problem is the MS Access field names are longer than 10 characters. Some of the fields have the same 10-character beginnings.
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>I tried to Export from MS Access and import into VFP as PDox but all I get is column1, column2, etc.
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>I tried to run a search but since the word "access" appears in tons of threads that is impossible to limit.
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>Also have tried using the Excel format.
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>Thanks,
>Ray.

You can create an ODBC connection to the Access Database... you should be able to get the data through it.

HTH
Wayne Myers, MCSD
Senior Consultant
Forte' Incorporated
"The only things you can take to heaven are those which you give away" Author Unknown
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