Great Plains Dos Connecting To The Database In Pervasive Control Center Posted By: Andrew Karasev

Great Plains Accounting for DOS data conversion might look like puzzle. Let"s come through the steps and answer popular questions at the end. First of all you should identify GPS folder on the server. If you have only one company then its directory is likely GPData. If you have more than one then the folder should be named as company abbreviation. Let"s talk a little bit about database platform. Files have DAT extension which might resemble Ctree. However it is Btrieve and this is why many GPA customers redeployed it on Pervasive SQL 2000. We saw examples where it was moved to Windows 2003 Server from Novel or WindowsNT. After this introduction let"s talk about connection and data export: 1.DDF Files are needed to establish ODBC connection. Creation procedure is described in ODBC manual which is available on original installation CD. However the procedure requires one of the floppy diskette and it is uncommon nowadays for computers to have floppy drive. We have collections of DDF files for 9.5 and 9.2 so at least it might be good news for you. When files are produced you should company them into company root directory on the server 2.Great Plains DOSERP Data Conversion