Sage 50 Accounts Database Schema

Question

I am accessing Sage 50 data via their ODBC Driver but cannot seem to establish if the tables have a unique / primary key. The ODBC.NET Driver does not seem to return any information relating to indexes or key field information.

Anyone got any clues?

Tim

Answer 1

Tables ending in "m" seem to be master tables with actual real data in...

Don't know if that helps at all.

Answer 2

On the main objects such as Customers, Suppliers the Key indexed fields are ACCOUNT_REF, if its a transaction file you would join on HEADER.HEADER_NUMBER -> SPLIT.HEADER_NUMBER - they work on old school linked lists are are not indexed

For Sales or Purchase Orders, Invoice documents you would join INVOICE.INVOICE_NUMBER to INVOICE_ITEM.INVOICE_NUMBER

Answer 3

I created a ODBC data source and exported the data in excel and it clearly shows the table names, columns and data.

Answer 4

Check the sage 50 data dictionary lots of information about the database such as: columns , indexes, keys, length, type , descriptions.

Answer 5

Sage Line 50 uses a proprietry database. As far as I am aware there is no indexing of the tables.