[Qgis-user] editing dbf files

[Brian Bishop]

OpenOffice handles large dbf files using OpenOffice Base.

Start OpenOffice Base, which should display the Database Wizard and
select "Connect to an existing database" and select dBase from the drop
down list.

Brian


On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:00 -0700, John C. Tull wrote:

> StarOffice handles them fine, at least in the Mac Beta I just tested.
> 
> John
> 
> On Aug 11, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Werner Macho wrote:
> 
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > Probably that doesn't help you at all but the only program I know (And
> > unfortunately HAVE to use when editing bigger .dbf files than the
> > mentioned 65536 lines) is the statistical program SPSS.
> >
> > Very rarely I have to edit such big files too and still found no other
> > way to comfortably edit those files.
> >
> > But I'd like to see such capability in QGis too
> >
> > regards
> > Werner
> >
> > On Mo, 2008-08-11 at 18:38 +0200, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> >> Hi List,
> >>
> >> I've these pretty big .dbf-files (that is more then the  
> >> 64000something
> >> you can edit in Excel/Openoffice), without corresponding shp file.
> >> I was told to edit those in arcview, but off course wanted to do  
> >> this in
> >> qgis. But I fail to open/edit them.
> >>
> >> I tried both in metis in xp and ubuntu. I can open the file (as a
> >> 'raster'), but when I try to look at the 'table', qgis either shows  
> >> the
> >> columns, but empty fields of crashes (in ubuntu rasing a warning:
> >> WARNING: This code (file
> >> /build/buildd/qgis-0.11.0/src/core/qgsvectorlayer.cpp, line 1068)  
> >> should
> >> never be reached. Problems may occur...
> >>
> >> question:
> >> should qgis be able to edit a stand-alone dbf-file?
> >> if so, what's the right way to do this/
> >> if not: I'm aware there are other options to do this ;-)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Richard Duivenvoorde
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