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Re: Dbase and no 'Like' s

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Kees wrote:
> Unfortunatly I can't change the database. It is used by a big DBASE
> program (ugh...) running in a DOS window under Windows.

Wow.  That was notably out of date the last time I saw something like that, 
which was a FoxPro for DOS program running under Windows in 1999.

It is costlier to do what you're trying to do than to migrate the program, I 
predict.

If, as you say, there is a "big DBASE [sic] program" running, a JDBC driver 
won't be enough.  You'll need an interpreter for the dBASE code.

If you're migrating the code anyway, migrating the data will not cost much. 
Move it out of dBASE into a real database, say, PostgreSQL, for which there is 
a robust JDBC driver.  Many DBMSes will directly import .dbf files into tables.

-- 
Lew

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