I know that vendors like using FoxPro because of the lack of security built in but gezzz. I have been unsuccessful with setting up Openrowset, bcp, bulk import. Is FoxPro import become out of the solution set due to its age? Of course I can convert dbf to Excel then import but this adds too much to some of our 'end users'??? Thanks and sorry. To append records from dBase dbf files into a table, you can run an Insert Into statement with an In Clause. (See Access help file for the syntax of In Clause.) I have attached a sample database and three dBase 5.0 files converted from the NorthWind Products table (all the field names were truncated at the 11th characters during export.).

1. How To Import A Dbf File Into Excel
2. How To Import Dbf File Into Excel

1. Insert excel data into dbf table Overview DBF Viewer & Editor is a compact but powerful tool for viewing, editing, and printing DBF-format databases. It supports dBase, Clipper, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro and other sas proc import dbf DBF file formats.
2. Converter: XLS (Excel) to DBF Converter converts all your XLS files into DBF and makes them compatible with database management system. Even though, dealing with database files always sounds complicated, this program ensures you an easy and a quick handling.
3. Import any XML to DBF. Probably you often need to convert an XML file or a folder with XML files into one or several DBF files. The problem is that the XML structure, its hierarchy and nesting levels differ from file to file. In this article, we'll take a detailed look on how to import an XML file of ANY structure to a flat DBF table.

Overview

DBF Converter & DBF Viewer is a compact but powerful tool for viewing, editing, and printing DBF-format databases - screen shot.
It supports dBase, Clipper, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro and other DBF file formats. In contrast to many analogues, DBF Converter & DBF Viewer is completely a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista program. The user friendly graphic makes working with databases simple and hassle free.
Most important parts of DBF Converter & DBF Viewer code are written in Assembler, therefore the basic operations performs fast and the .exe file is very small (only 410Kb!).
DBF Converter & DBF Viewer uses its own database access tools and does not require external drivers for connection to databases (such as ODBC or BDE) or additional libraries (.OCX, .DLL).
The program allows you to add, delete, recall, sort, zap, pack records, view and edit files in DOS or Windows character sets, get detailed database information,export dbf files to txt/html format, convert csv and xls / xlsx to dbf format, import/export from MS Excel (including MS Excel 2007!), and search in a file. DBF Converter & DBF Viewer comes with Installer/Uninstaller, documentation in HTML format, and sample files.

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Convert xls to dbf

Import from XLS / XLSX (Excel) to DBF Base

This dialog window imports data from an Excel file. With 'Import data into current (opened) database file' option, the DBFView will insert records from xls / xlsx file you selected into current dbf file. In this case the number of fields and field types should be the same as opened dbase file. If 'Import data into another DBF file' is checked, the program will create a new dbf file based on selected Excel xls / xlsx file.

When you export .xls files you should take into consideration some limitations:
1. Rules of the columns names.

- Columns names should be written down one after another (beginning with the cell A1).
- Empty names of the columns are not supported (columns laying to the left are only imported).
- Columns names longer than 8 symbols are truncated up to 8 symbols.

2. Rules of the columns type definition.
The columns type is defined according to the type of the data entered into the second row, i.e. if the integer value is written in the second row that column will be of the integer type.

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Mike Koch - System Administrator
I found DBFView after a lengthy search on the net. I was looking for an interface that could provide a view, update, and edit interface for a large database that could reside on an internet drive (like X-Drive), where I and co-workers out of state could access and quickly update our numbers (basically job/data tracking for telecommuters). The company does photo-editing (school, corporate, restorative work) utilizing high-speed internet, waveform compression, and some good computer artists. Maybe 5000 negative scans per year.
Anyway, nobody wanted to install full-blown database programs, sql server or the like, the company is not that big, nor is the data itself considered critical. So for this type of user, your interface provides clean, quick, simple, no syntax required, put the data in and go. Others I looked at tried to do the same but usually forget the 'people element', and I don't have time to learn sql syntax and help them complete their programs. (Incidently, I used to have a lot of fun programming DBase II and III, then I saw Access and cried).

Mario Secco - Software Manager
We develop application software using any kind of DBF format file. The DBF files generated (FoxPro DBFCDX in windows format) are different from the equivalent FoxPro generated in DOS format: as a result of that the utilities I use to maintain the DBF files (mainly DBU of Clipper) are enable to manage all formats. I should have at least 3 versions of the same utility. For this matter I started a research on the web to find a more rational tool. I've downloaded several DBF managers very good products but they don't solve the compatibility problem. Only DBFView has the main feature I'm searching for : it recognizes the DBF format! And then the graphical interface of DBFView is very user friendly, agreeable to see, and the exe is very small.

Byron Pate - Software Developer
First off I would like to tell you what a great product DBFView is. I'm trying to convert a large dbase file into SQL Server and the dbf file is giving me a great deal of problems, and DBFView has allowed me to go in and find the records with problems and fix them.

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