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Gary Stephens <[log in to unmask]>
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Just my 2 penny worth but if you were really stuck, broke, prepared to handball as a one off, you could always query out to a flat file? 

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> On 11 Feb 2017, at 13:53, Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Tim,
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> Hopefully you have been getting group replies about ODBC.    I'm doing a Reply-All because I noticed your first message was to the Subscribe address.  In this case you should also at least get a personal copy.
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> ODBC would be your best option.
> 
> However I remember a really old option.  Do you have Powerhouse?  Specifically QTP ?
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> You could do a portable subfile and create a downloadable flat file.  In Minisoft or Reflection.
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> Example:
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>> ACCESS MYDATASET
>> SUBFILE NEWNAME KEEP INCLUDE ALL PORTABLE
>> GO
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> Only works with QTP, in QUIZ you have to name the fields.  
> 
> Then download  your NEWNAME.
> 
> Do that for every dataset.  Hopefully your datasets are not too extensive, there may be width problems.  Make sure your ASCII width is the same as your flat file.
> 
> This creates flat files that should be importable to any spreadsheet, Access probably works too.  Or once you've got it into a spreadsheet flip it over to Access.
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> (I'm typing my pseudo code from memory, the word order of the SUBFILE command may be off.)
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> Tracy Johnson
> BT
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