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Schedule and automate DBF exporting to Excel files task
1. Select and run a task from follow list:
- Export multiple similar DBF tables to a single Excel sheet
- Export DBF table to Excel
- Export DBF to Excel XLSX format
- Export DBF query results to Excel
- Export DBF tables to Excel sheets in 1 Excel file
- Batch export DBF tables to Excel files
- Create Excel report from DBF database
- Export DBF table to Excel using dynamic filename with current date
- Export DBF query to Excel using dynamic filename with current date
2. Save session and create .bat file.
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DBF → EXCEL reference
Type mapping
| Value kind | in DBF | in EXCEL |
|---|---|---|
| Int | Numeric(10,0) | 1234 (a real numeric cell) |
| Bigint | Numeric(19,0) | 9007199254740993 (exact only while the cell stays text) |
| Decimal | Numeric(p,s) | 1234.56 (numeric cell, format controls the displayed decimals) |
| Float | Float | 1.234E+10 (numeric cell) |
| Text | Character(n) | text cell; leading zeros survive only if the column is text |
| Long text | Memo | text cell; wraps inside the cell rather than the row |
| Date | Date | a serial number plus a date cell format |
| Datetime | (none) | a serial number plus a date-time cell format |
| Binary | (none) | not representable as data |
| Boolean | Logical | TRUE / FALSE (a real boolean cell) |
| JSON | (none) | a text cell; the quotes are part of the value |
Dialect differences
DBF is a database server and EXCEL is a file format, so the gap is wider than a dialect difference – the rows below are where values and structure stop lining up.
| Property | in DBF | in EXCEL |
|---|---|---|
| port | (file-based) | — |
| identifiers | — | Not applicable; a cell holds exactly one value |
| row limit | (driver dependent) | — |
| dates | Date (D) | Stored as a serial number; only the cell format makes it lo... |
| long text | Memo (M) | — |
| binary | — | Only as text or an embedded object, not as a data column |
| separator | — | Cells, not delimiters |
| encoding | — | UTF-8 internally, declared in the package |
| typing | — | Real cell types: text, number, date, boolean, error |
| shape | Tables of rows and columns | Multiple sheets, each a flat grid |
| ceiling | — | 1,048,576 rows x 16,384 columns per sheet; 255 sheets per w... |
No counterpart
- EXCEL has no equivalent for Date and time – it has to be flattened or dropped.
- EXCEL has no equivalent for Binary – it has to be flattened or dropped.
- EXCEL has no equivalent for JSON – it has to be flattened or dropped.
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