[Qgis-user] editing dbf files

[Mark]

I do have to say the learning curve on sqlite is not bad at all.

Mark

~ iPhone'd

On Aug 11, 2008, at 5:03 PM, "G. Allegri" <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had similar problems. My workaround (not a solution) was migrating
> the dbf to a sqlite db.
> I use grass to do it (db.copy)
>
> 2008/8/11 Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>:
>> 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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