Understanding the Export File

The export file stores the structure for each table and field in this format:

#db          SALESORD
#generation  0
#null        !
#reldata     name = "CUSTOMER"  number = 4107  flags = 8496 ,
             read = 0    write = 0  last_change = 0
#language 0
________________
Customer
________________ 
#language 1
________________
Kunde
________________
#field_descr name = "CUSTOMER_NUMBER"  number = 4108 ,
             type = N     length = 5  occurs = 1 ,
             read = 0    write = 0  format = 0 ,
             iotype = N ,
             precision = 0 scale =   0 ,
             low  = "0           " ,
             high = "99999           "

#relfield    name = "CUSTOMER_NUMBER"  number = 4108 ,
             key  = 1  sequence = 5

The indexes between tables are stored at the end of the export file, in this format:

#pc_record   child  = "REGION"  child_nr  = 4104 ,
             parent = "INDEX_CUST_NAME"  parent_nr = 4127 ,
             flags  = 3328
#pc_record   child  = "CUSTOMER"  child_nr  = 4107 ,
             parent = "REGION"  parent_nr = 4104 ,
             flags  = 2309

If you answered 'Yes' to the question 'Include instruction to delete tables not in extract from target', DP4 puts the line #all_tables to the export file. This line specifies that tables on the target database that are not on the source database are to be deleted:

#db          SALESORD
#generation  0
#null        !
#all_tables