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CSV Converter Converts CSV to Other File Types with Outstanding Accuracy
We often need to move data from one format to the other. Take CSV for example. too often we need to export CSV to other file types to load that file to an application that does not support CSV, or it is just convenient for editing. But what’s a user to do? Until recently,we had to buy several specialized software packages to export to other formats, which was expensive. Also you could re-enter all data from a CSV database to a file in a new format but that would be too hard and require too many efforts. Hopefully, all of that is eliminated.
CSV Converter lets the user convert CSV to nine popular formats, such as DBF (Dbase III/IV, Visual Foxpro) , Excel (XLS,XLSX), TXT, HTML, PRG, XML, SQL, and RTF. To export a file, you just need to choose the source database, the target format and output directory. If there is anything in a CSV database that you do not want to be exported, the program allows you to set a filter by example and choose columns to exclude from the conversion, which gives flexibility in defining output database parameters. Once everything is set and configured, the next step is to start the process, which is only one click. The program intelligently parses the source database, converts all data to a li
st of data fields and saves the output to the output folder. All of this happens without requiring your attention. Also no external drivers such as ODBC or BDE are required. Claimed accuracy is around 100 %.
Advanced CSV Converter requires no learning after the installation. The user can begin your first CSV conversion right after the installation thanks to the wizard-driven interface that guides you through all the stages of the setup process in a step-by-step manner. In addition to exporting a single file, the user can also run a batch conversion of more than one file in one go. For this purpose, the user should select the folder with CSV files as the source, configure export parameters and start the conversion. Also although most people prefer to use the GUI user interface, some advanced users may prefer to do conversion from the command line, and the program provides support for this function too.
Once you try, you’re going to see that Advanced CSV Converter provides an easy and inexpensive solution to converting your data from CSV to other formats. The program runs on all versions of Windows, including Vista and Windows 7 (32/64-bit).
CSV Converter Converts CSV to Other File Types with Outstanding Accuracy
We often need to move data from one format to the other. Take CSV for example. too often we need to export CSV to other file types to load that file to an application that does not support CSV, or it is just convenient for editing. But what’s a user to do? Until recently,we had to buy several specialized software packages to export to other formats, which was expensive. Also you could re-enter all data from a CSV database to a file in a new format but that would be too hard and require too many efforts. Hopefully, all of that is eliminated.
CSV Converter lets the user convert CSV to nine popular formats, such as DBF (Dbase III/IV, Visual Foxpro) , Excel (XLS,XLSX), TXT, HTML, PRG, XML, SQL, and RTF. To export a file, you just need to choose the source database, the target format and output directory. If there is anything in a CSV database that you do not want to be exported, the program allows you to set a filter by example and choose columns to exclude from the conversion, which gives flexibility in defining output database parameters. Once everything is set and configured, the next step is to start the process, which is only one click. The program intelligently parses the source database, converts all data to a li
st of data fields and saves the output to the output folder. All of this happens without requiring your attention. Also no external drivers such as ODBC or BDE are required. Claimed accuracy is around 100 %.
Advanced CSV Converter requires no learning after the installation. The user can begin your first CSV conversion right after the installation thanks to the wizard-driven interface that guides you through all the stages of the setup process in a step-by-step manner. In addition to exporting a single file, the user can also run a batch conversion of more than one file in one go. For this purpose, the user should select the folder with CSV files as the source, configure export parameters and start the conversion. Also although most people prefer to use the GUI user interface, some advanced users may prefer to do conversion from the command line, and the program provides support for this function too.
Once you try, you’re going to see that Advanced CSV Converter provides an easy and inexpensive solution to converting your data from CSV to other formats. The program runs on all versions of Windows, including Vista and Windows 7 (32/64-bit).
File Processing Systems
Even the earliest business computer systems were used to process business records and produce information. They were generally faster and more accurate than equivalent manual systems. These systems stored groups of records in separate files, and so they were called file processing systems. Although file processing systems are a great improvement over manual systems, they do have the following limitations:
Data is separated and isolated.
Data is often duplicated.
Application programs are dependent on file formats.
It is difficult to represent complex objects using file processing systems. Data is separate and isolated. Recall that as the marketing manager you needed to relate sales data to customer data. Somehow you need to extract data from both the CUSTOMER and ORDER files and combine it into a single file for processing. To do this, computer programmers determine which parts of each of the files are needed. Then they determine how the files are related to one another, and finally they coordinate the processing of the files so the correct data is extracted. This data is then used to produce the information. Imagine the problems of extracting data from ten or fifteen files instead of just two! Data is often duplicated. In the record club example, a member’s name, address, and membership number are stored in both files. Although this duplicate data wastes a small amount of file space, that is not the most serious problem with duplicate data. The major problem concerns data integrity. A collection of data has integrity if the data is logically consistent. This means, in part, that duplicated data items agree with one another. Poor data integrity often develops in file processing systems. If a member were to change his or her name or address, then all files containing that data need to be updated. The danger lies in the risk that all files might not be updated, causing discrepancies between the files. Data integrity problems are serious. If data items differ, inconsistent results will be produced. A report from one application might disagree with a report from another application. At least one of them will be incorrect, but who can tell which one? When this occurs, the credibility of the stored data comes into question. Application programs are dependent on file formats. In file processing systems, the physical formats of files and records are entered in the application programs that process the files. In COBOL, for example, file formats are written in the DATA DIVISION. The problem with this arrangement is that changes in file formats result in program updates. For example, if the Customer record were modified to expand the ZIP Code field from five to nine digits, all programs that use the Customer record need to be modified, even if they do not use the ZIP Code field. There might be twenty programs that process the CUSTOMER file. A change like this one means that a programmer needs to identify all the affected programs, then modify and retest them. This is both time consuming and error-prone. It is also very frustrating to have to modify programs that do not even use the field whose format changed. It is difficult to represent complex objects using file processing systems. This last weakness of file processing systems may seem a bit theoretical, but it is an important shortcoming.