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Table To dBASE (Conversion Tools)

Summary

Converts one or more tables to dBASE tables.

Usage

  • The tool copies the rows of a table, table view, feature class, feature layer, delimited file, or raster with an attribute table to a new geodatabase table.

  • This tool supports the following table formats as input:

    • Geodatabase

    • dBASE (.dbf)

    • Microsoft Excel worksheets (.xls and .xlsx)

    • Memory-based tables

    • Delimited files

      • Comma-delimited files (.csv, .txt, and .asc)

      • Tab-delimited files (.tsv and .tab)

      • Pipe-delimited files (.psv)

    For delimited files, the first row of the input file is used as the field names on the output table. Field names cannot contain spaces or special characters (such as $ or *), and an error will occur if the first row of the input file contains spaces or special characters.

  • The name of the output dBASE tables will be based on the name of the input table. To control the output name and for additional conversion options, use the Export Table tool.

  • The Copy Rows and Export Table tools can also be used to convert a table to a dBASE table.

  • If the name of an output table already exists in the output folder, and the Allow geoprocessing tools to overwrite existing datasets option is unchecked, a number will be appended to the end of the name to make it unique (for example, OutputTbl_1.dbf). If any of the input tables have the same name, a number will also be appended to the output table names, regardless of the overwrite existing datasets option. Otherwise, the table will be overwritten.

Parameters

Label Explanation Data type

Input Tables

The list of tables to be converted to dBASE tables.

Table View

Output Folder

The destination folder where the output dBASE tables will be placed.

Folder

Derived output

Label Explanation Data type

Updated Output Folder

The folder containing the new dBASE tables.

Folder

Environments

Current Workspace, Output CONFIG Keyword, Scratch Workspace, Extent, Maintain fully qualified field names

Licensing information

  • Basic: Yes
  • Standard: Yes
  • Advanced: Yes