The pxtools are a set of tools to convert a Paradox-database into a SQL-database.

This is a fork of https://github.com/ustramooner/pxtools, which is derived from the original pxtools, which used to be found at http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/paradox/ (it is now a 404).

Original author: mailto:[email protected]

pxTools

pxinfo

dumps the basic infomations of the given paradox-file.

pxsqldump

Parses the Paradox-database and dump the corresponding SQL-strings (CREATE TABLE and INSERT INTO) on stdout.

use -n to overwrite the tablename. use -f to specify the filename of t

pxcsvdump

Parses the Paradox-database and dump the corresponding CSV-strings on stdout.

use -n to overwrite the tablename.

Supported Field Types

Currently the following field-types are recognized: ALPHA DATE SHORTINT LONGINT CURRENCY NUMBER LOGICAL TIMESTAMP MEMOBLOB

the rest is currenly not supported. mail me if you need more.

Problems

Y2K

Paradox-files are NOT Y2K-safe. Currently there is a workarund for this bug in pxconvert.c that adds 100 years if the date is before 1.1.1970.

Index-files

The information you get out of the index-files by pxsqldump is not rellay usefull. It all the data it can find, but the header is currently parsed wrong. Anyway these index-files are not needed to convert a paradox-database into a SQL-database. (PRIMARY KEY and FOREIGN KEY can't be detected yet.)

TIMESTAMP

The field-type TIMESTAMP returned by pxsqldump has a precission of +/- 1 second.