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Connection String: Displays the connection string used to access the Data Source.
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Table: Displays the tables and stored procedures available in the database. The selected
table is the one the data is extracted from. Clicking on any of the tables shows the first line
of the data in that table.
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Encoding: Defines what encoding is used to read the Data Source (US-ASCII, ISO-
8859-1, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE ).
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Browse button : Opens the Edit Database configuration dialog, which can replace
the existing database data source with a new one. This is the same as using the Replace
feature in the Data Samples window.
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Custom SQL button : Click to open the SQL Query Designer (see "SQL Query
Designer" on page213) and type in a custom SQL query. If the database supports stored
procedures, including inner joins, grouping and sorting, you can use custom SQL to make
a selection from the database, using whatever language the database supports.
Text file Input Data settings
Because text files have many different shapes and sizes, there are many options for the input
data in these files.
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Encoding: Defines what encoding is used to read the Data Source (US-ASCII, ISO-
8859-1, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE ).
l Selection/Text is based on bytes:Check for text files that use double-bytes characters
(resolves width issues in some text files).
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Add/Remove characters: Defines the number of characters to add to, or remove from,
the head of the data stream. The spin buttons can also increment or decrement the value.
Positive values add blank characters while negative values remove characters.
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Add/Remove lines: Defines the number of lines to add to, or remove from, the head of
the data stream. The spin buttons can also increment or decrement the value. Positive
values add blank lines while negative values remove lines.
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Maximum line length: Defines the number of columns on a data page. The spin buttons
can also increment or decrement the value. The maximum value for this option is 65,535
characters. The default value is 80 characters. You should tune this value to the longest
line in your input data. Setting a maximum data line length that greatly exceeds the length
of the longest line in your input data may increase execution time.
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Page delimiter type: Defines the delimiter between each page of data. Multiples of such
pages can be part of a record, as defined by the Boundaries.
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