ASA SQL User's Guide
Importing and Exporting Data
Importing and exporting data
Interactive SQL supports the following import and export file formats:
File Format | Description | Available for Importing | Available for Exporting |
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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 |