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ASA SQL User's Guide
  Importing and Exporting Data
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Data formats


Interactive SQL supports the following import and export file formats:

File Format Description Available for Importing Available for Exporting
ASCII A text file, one row per line, with values separated by a delimiter. String values optionally appear enclosed in apostrophes (single quotes). This is the same as the format used by LOAD TABLE and UNLOAD TABLE.
DBASEII DBASE II format
DBASEIII DBASE III format
Excel 2.1 Excel format 2.1
FIXED Data records appear in fixed format with the width of each column either the same as defined by the column's type or specified as a parameter.
FOXPRO FoxPro format
HTML HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) format No
LOTUS Lotus workspace format
SQL Statements The SQL statement format. This format can be used as an argument in a READ statement. Using the READ statement only
XML The generated XML file is encoded in UTF-8 and contains an embedded DTD. Binary values are encoded in CDATA blocks with the binary data rendered as 2-hex-digit strings. No

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