There are times when a database administrator has to deal with .dbf databases created in many different applications such as Clipper, dBase, FoxBase, Foxpro. For all the functionalities each of them provides, none of them serves as an all-in-one tool that can be used to view and modify databases created in other software. Purchasing all these applications comes with an impressive price that not everyone is ready to pay. Knowing this, developers from Hi Base Group created an a remarkably powerful and affordable tool called Advanced DBF Editor.

DBF Editor from http://www.dbf-edit.com is a editor specifically designed to view and modify DBF databases created in all popular database applications. When I say popular, I am referring to Clipper, dBase III/IV, FoxBase, Foxpro, Visual Foxpro. The application offers you a powerful set of tools and options of a professional database application but, unlike its bigger brothers, it has faster performance. By installing Advanced DBF Editors, you get everything you need to work with various DBF databases without hassles.

Using Advanced DBF Editor, you can, for example, examine records and memos in DBF databases with just a few mouse clicks. To make a few small edits, you only need to double-click the needed records and enter your own values to the fields in the record editing dialog that opens. You do editing on the go as your examine a database, and there is no need to run another database application for making a few quick edits. If you have a large database, you can still quickly find a record you need by using a simple search, query, or filtering. Besides, the program can also help you to search and replace particular values in fields with the new ones automatically, add new records to the database, find and delete duplicate records that may often be found within a large database.

Besides viewing and modifying, the program can help you to convert a database to new database formats without the need to install extra database tools. Let's say, for example, you need to send a database to your colleague who wants you to export it to Excel XLS because he does not have a proper tool to open DBF. You can open the database in Advanced DBF Editor, select XLS in the Export dialog and save as needed. What's more, you can export a database to other formats including DBF, TXT, CSV, HTML, XML, PRG, SQL, RTF.

Some people buy several different database applications to view, modify, or export various DBF databases. This may cost much. Now you have a chance to save money and get the features of all these applications in a single universal database utility that will not burn holes in your pockets when you buy it.