Hi James

Sorry for sounding ignorant but what is ISQL?

Thanks
Simon

>Simon,
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>You can use the OUTPUT statement to extract data in a number of formats. One of the is foxpro which gives you a 2x type dbf file.
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>Select * from table ;
>output to c:\file.dbd format foxpro ;
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>This will only work using ISQL. You can also automate ISQL with command line options so the extracts can be part of a batch file.
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>Using VFP you can do about whatever you want through ODBC. Just remember that vs5.5 has to have an client app running to allow ODBC to connect. If you have a lot of data to output the option above is much faster.
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>>Hi
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>>I have a customer who wishes me to extract some data on an on going basis from an app. I can use the built in export function in the application with some work arounds but in the process I discovered that the application was using SQL Anywhere 5.5 so I thought it would be better to use VFP to extract the data because I could automate the whole thing.
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>>Not being familiar with SQL Anywhere I wondered if some current users might give me a little information on how and what is required to export data from SQL Anywhere into VFP tables for further analysis.
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>>Thanks
>>Simon White