DBMS-COPY 8.0

DBMS-COPY (also known as DBMS/COPY) by Conceptual Software, Inc. is a data access and conversion utility designed to move data seamlessly among databases, spreadsheets, and statistical packages. It reads, writes, and translates datasets across dozens of file formats without requiring intermediate exports, helping teams standardize, migrate, and share data quickly and reliably.

Key capabilities:

• Broad format support: converts among common relational databases, desktop databases, spreadsheets, flat files, and popular statistical packages (for example, SAS and SPSS).
• Metadata preservation: maintains variable names, labels, types, widths, formats, and missing-value definitions wherever the destination format allows.
• Smart mapping: handles type casting, date/time and numeric format conversions, and character set/code-page issues to reduce manual cleanup.
• Automation options: offers an interactive interface for ad hoc transfers and a command-line/scripting mode for repeatable, scheduled jobs.
• Selective transfer: lets you subset fields, filter rows, rename variables, and apply basic transformations during conversion.
• Connectivity: supports industry-standard data access layers (such as ODBC) for direct reads/writes to many databases.

Typical uses:

• Migrating legacy datasets to modern platforms.
• Exchanging data between analytics tools and operational systems.
• Consolidating inputs from multiple sources into a consistent structure for reporting or modeling.
• Preparing clean, well-labeled datasets for downstream analysis.

Who it’s for:

• Data analysts, statisticians, and researchers who work across multiple tools.
• Data engineers and DBAs responsible for data integration, archiving, or platform transitions.

DBMS-COPY focuses on dependable, metadata-aware conversions, reducing the friction of moving data between heterogeneous systems and helping organizations spend less time reformatting—and more time analyzing—data.

DBMS-COPY is developed by Conceptual Software, Inc.. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 7.0 and 8.0.