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Export Visual FoxPro query result to SQL file using dynamic filename with date and time
Login to Visual FoxPro -> Enter Visual FoxPro SQL statement -> Set SQL filename template including date -> Export Visual FoxPro query to SQL using current date as file name
Choose Visual FoxPro and logon.
“Export From Query” for “SQL to Visual FoxPro“.
Select SQL file type.
1. Enter Visual FoxPro SQL query.
2. Set SQL file options. Enter filename template, including date, #yyyy# is for current year, #mm# month, #dd# day, #hh# hour, #mi# minute, #ss# second.
3. Set rows options.
4. Export Visual FoxPro query results to SQL file. Dynamically created SQL file name using present system time.
After exporting, you can view output SQL files.
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Visual FoxPro → SQL reference
Type mapping
| Value kind | in Visual FoxPro | in SQL |
|---|---|---|
| Int | Numeric(10,0) | INT |
| Bigint | Numeric(19,0) | BIGINT |
| Decimal | Numeric(p,s) | DECIMAL(p,s) |
| Float | Float | DOUBLE PRECISION |
| Text | Character(n) | VARCHAR(n) |
| Long text | Memo | TEXT / CLOB |
| Date | Date | DATE |
| Datetime | DateTime | TIMESTAMP |
| Binary | General | BLOB / BYTEA |
| Boolean | Logical | BOOLEAN / SMALLINT |
| JSON | (none) | JSON / TEXT |
Dialect differences
Visual FoxPro is a database server and SQL 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 Visual FoxPro | in SQL |
|---|---|---|
| port | (file-based) | — |
| identifiers | — | Two competing conventions: single-quoted literals and diale... |
| row limit | (driver dependent) | — |
| dates | Date (D), DateTime (T) | Depends on the dialect: DATE literals, TO_DATE(), or plain ... |
| long text | Memo (M) | — |
| binary | General (G) | Dialect-specific: X-quoted literal, 0x hex, or decode() |
| separator | — | Statement terminators (;) |
| encoding | — | No declaration |
| typing | — | Types belong to the target database, and they differ betwee... |
| shape | Tables of rows and columns | Statements; a dump usually means CREATE TABLE plus INSERT rows |
| ceiling | — | No formal limit, but a single INSERT statement has to fit i... |
No counterpart
- SQL has no equivalent for JSON – it has to be flattened or dropped.
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