Getting started with databases

[stephen barncard]

Filemaker tabbed delimited export converts returns to vertical tab
characters. You can still retain your returns.

On 16 September 2010 13:25, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> To my knowledge, it exports just the tables and indexes. It may also export
> relationships, I don't know. I just know that after I purchased it, I was a
> bit disappointed because I thought I could take a fully functional Filemaker
> Database, complete with forms and everything, and it would create a fully
> functional revolution stack for me. Perhaps my expectations were a bit hi.
>
> Things may have improved since then. At the time the developer told me that
> there was no easy way to get information about forms from Filemaker in any
> kind of meaningful way, but perhaps he has that figured out now.
>
> Also be aware, (and I don't want to sound too negative) but apparently
> there were some issues with my data, and I never even got the tables ported.
> I think it had something to do with blank data or carriage returns or
> something.
>
> As far as CSV, if there are any delimiters in your data in Filemaker, such
> as commas, quotes, tabs or returns, a CSV export will be very problematic.
> You should first try to convert anything that might be be construed as a
> delimiter in your filemaker data to some other character, or unlikely
> combination of characters, so that whatever you use to import with can
> convert them back before shipping them off to an SQL database. This is just
> the nature of export/import with dissimilar data structures.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
>
> >
> > Bob, are you saying, just the tables...?   So why not export the tables
> as
> > csv....?   Am I missing something to do with relations?
> >
> > Peter
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