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What's the best way to clean up messy data?

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From: Fred Puhan
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 04:01
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On 10/15/92, Chris Chesher said to All: 

  CC> From: Chris Chesher <cchesher@uts.edu.au> Newsgroups:
  CC> comp.sys.mac.databases Organization: Uni of Technology, Sydney
  CC> 
  CC> We're exporting data from a relational database on a PC to put it into
  CC> an Omnis 7 databases on the Mac.
  CC> 
  CC> The problem is how to restore all the relations and keep the data in
  CC> its appropriate columnns in the kindest, gentlest way possible.
  CC> 
  CC> Does anyone have any suggestions about techniques, applications,
  CC> utilities, or whatever, that may make our lives a bit easier?
  CC> 
  CC> Chris Chesher cchesher@uts.edu.au *****************


    Depends on what RDBMS on the PC you are using, and what type of relations
you are trying to preserve (.DBF, perhaps?).

    The *first* thing to look at would be setting the file connections when you
have a file format open (look under the Modify menu)...
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Subject: What's the best way to clean up messy data?
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 23:01:13 -0500
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