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DBF — dBase / xBase Table
The employee table as a dBase (DBF) file — the venerable xBase table format still emitted by GIS tools and legacy databases. For testing DBF readers and DBF→CSV conversion.
Preview — schema + first 5 rowsdbf
| idint64 | namestring | emailstring | departmentstring | activebool | scoredouble | joineddate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1001 | Ada Lovelace | ada.lovelace@example.com | Engineering | true | 98.5 | 2021-03-01 |
| 1002 | Alan Turing | alan.turing@example.com | Research | true | 95 | 2020-06-15 |
| 1003 | Grace Hopper | grace.hopper@example.com | Engineering | false | 91.2 | 2019-11-20 |
| 1004 | Katherine Johnson | katherine.johnson@example.com | Operations | true | 96.8 | 2022-01-10 |
| 1005 | Edsger Dijkstra | edsger.dijkstra@example.com | Research | false | 89.4 | 2018-09-05 |
Decoded table — all 5 rows shown.
Specifications
- Rows
- 5
- Columns
- 7
- Format
- dBase III (DBF)
- Fields
- 6
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