Imorting to a relational dBase

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Paul - 20 Jul 2007 13:04 GMT

Hello and Greetings from upstate NY

Help Please,
I am about to build a new relational dBase and want to know how do import
the old dBase that has been collected over the years. This project is for a
non-profit and I am not sure about this, I am to new at this.....

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Douglas J. Steele - 20 Jul 2007 14:40 GMT

You can either import the old data into the new database (under File | Get
External Database | Import), or (better) simply link to the old data (under
File | Get External Database | Link Tables). You can then write queries to
write the old data into the new, normalized tables.

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> Hello and Greetings from upstate NY
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> for a
> non-profit and I am not sure about this, I am to new at this.....

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