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# Exporting Raiser's Edge for CiviCRM
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There are two basic approaches to exporting RE data.  There's the built-in export tool, and there's direct SQL interaction.  This document will try to cover both approaches where possible.  The Export tool has a lower barrier to entry, but a) there's some data you can't export with the tool, and b) the data will be denormalized, requiring additional transformation compared to extracting normalized SQL data.
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Note that there's a good video on this topic by Young-Jin from Emphanos, LLC, here: http://sf2013.civicrm.org/migrating-raisers-edge-civicrm
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##  Do you use Pentaho Kettle?
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If so, you can use my Raiser's Edge to CiviCRM transforms, available here: https://github.com/PalanteJon/civicrm_kettle_transforms
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## Export tool - general guide.
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The Raiser's Edge Export tool is on the left toolbar when you first enter Raiser's Edge.
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From the tool, you will create a number of exports.  When you first create an export, you'll be asked a number of questions, including Export Type (Constituent, Gift, etc.), a checkbox to include inactive records (check this), and an export file type (select CSV).
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For most export, select Constituent as the Export type.  This is the "base table" - all records will be joined relative to it.
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## Constituent Based Exports
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### Contact Information
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RE differentiates between constituents and non-constituents in their system.  If you create a new contact, they're a constituent - but then you might decide to add a spouse or employer record, which is NOT considered a constituent, and doesn't show up in most queries.  Notably, non-constituents aren't exported when using the Export tool and your base table is "Constituent".
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### SQL
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If extracting directly from SQL, `SELECT * FROM RECORDS`.
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Note that you can extract only constituents by adding `WHERE IS_CONSTITUENT = -1`.  For a Civi migration, I recommend importing all contacts.
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### Export tool (NOTE: This ONLY gets constituents).
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Tab 1. General:
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- Include all records.
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- Head of Household processing: Export both constituents separately.
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- Check all of the "Include these Constitutents": Inactive, deceased, no valid address
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Tab 2: Output.
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First, expand the "Constituent Information" in the left pane, and add every field to the export.  Do the export (as a CSV).
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### Constituent Codes
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In RE: Found at the bottom of the "Bio 2" tab.
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In SQL: CONSTITUENT_CODES maps to "GroupContact".  TABLEENTRIES stores the codes ("groups").  In my case, `SELECT *  FROM [CCR_July_snapshot].[dbo].[TABLEENTRIES] WHERE [CODETABLESID] = 43` did the trick.  YMMV - see "deciphering stored procedures" below.
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Export as _one to many_, below.
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These map to "groups" in Civi - can also be mapped to "tags" if you don't need to track the begin/end date on them.
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No need to export these fields:
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System Record ID
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Import ID
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As of Civi 4.4.6, there's no way to import Group Begin/End dates via API, you need to do it via direct SQL.
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### Solicit Codes
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These can map to groups - but also may map to privacy preferences or custom fields (e.g. Email Only, Do Not Solicit)
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SQL to extract solicit codes:
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```sql
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In my copy of RE, the CODETABLESID is 5044, so to get a list of all solicit codes, use:
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```sql
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### Addresses
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SQL tables: ADDRESS, CONSTIT_ADDRESS
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Addresses are a many-to-many relationship in RE.
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Not all addresses in the database are visible in RE.  Addresses where the `INDICATOR` field is 1 or 7, for instance.  Make sure to look your data over and filter those out accordingly.  Alternatively, you may want to handle them by creating address sharing in Civi.
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Source: http://www.kb.blackbaud.co.uk/articles/Article/41141
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The address Indicator field is located on the CONSTIT_ADDRESS table and can have the following values: 
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`CONSTIT_ADDRESS.TYPE` and `CONSTIT_ADDRESS.INDICATOR` both have a bearing on location type.  `TYPE` is what appears in the RE UI; however it's calculated based on the indicator.  An indicator of `3` is always a shared address from the relationship to "primary business information".  Adding a work address manually will always give an indicator of `2` if preferred or `0` otherwise.
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When you create an address on a related non-constituent, the address's `CONSTIT_ID` is actually the constituent's!  E.g. if John Doe works for Acme Corp, an address added to Acme Corp will have John Doe's `CONSTIT_ID`.  Even more confusing, a blank address with the Acme Corp `CONSTIT_ID` will be created.  To decipher this, you need to look at the `CONSTIT_RELATIONSHIPS.CONSTIT_ADDRESS_ID` field.
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Here's the SQL I use for getting address data in Kettle:
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~~~sql
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LEFT JOIN TABLEENTRIES AS CTY ON CTY.TABLEENTRIESID = COUNTRY
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JOIN CONSTIT_ADDRESS ca ON a.ID = ca.ADDRESS_ID
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LEFT JOIN TABLEENTRIES AS LOC_TYPE ON ca."TYPE" = LOC_TYPE.TABLEENTRIESID
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LEFT JOIN CONSTIT_RELATIONSHIPS cr ON ca.ID = cr.CONSTIT_ADDRESS_ID AND ca.CONSTIT_ID = cr.CONSTIT_ID
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### Primary Business Information 
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From "Bio 1", if you press the "Business" button, you can add a related business and its address - but if you check the "Primary Business Information" box, the address will actually have a `CONSTIT_ID` tied to the original contact.  Very confusing!  To properly migrate this address, you'll need to link the address using the `CONSTIT_RELATIONSHIP` table.
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### Phones/E-mail/websites
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Email and websites are stored in the `PHONES` table along with phone numbers.
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In older versions of RE (possibly up to 7.93), phones were tied to addresses, not contacts.  In current versions this is no longer true, but the fields are still present, which is a red herring.
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* You can NOT have duplicate phone types in RE, so no need to try and catch multiple "Home" numbers!
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This SQL gets me a useful list of phones and e-mail for further processing in Kettle (for RE 7.96):
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```sql
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SELECT DISTINCT
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LEFT JOIN TABLEENTRIES ON PHONETYPEID = TABLEENTRIESID
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ORDER BY PHONES.PHONESID, PHONES."SEQUENCE"
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### Relationships
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Relevant SQL table: CONSTIT_RELATIONSHIPS
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Relationships are different in Civi and RE in the following significant ways:
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* Relationships don't have to have a relationship type.
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* The A-B relationship doesn't have to have the same relationship type as B-A (e.g. if my relationship is "parent", the reciprocal relationship could be "son" or "daughter".
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* Related contacts need not have their own constituent record (though they can).  If they don't have their own constituent record, they nevertheless have a record in RECORDS, they're just not a constituent.
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* There need not be a relationship type at all.  This doesn't make sense, except that:
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* There are hardcoded fields for IS_SPOUSE, HON_MEM_ACKNOWLEDGE, IS_HEADOFHOUSEHOLD, and SOFTCREDIT_GIFTS.
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Because relationships aren't necessarily reciprocal, I find it helpful to take my list of invalid relationships and do BOTH of the following:
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* Look up the RELATIONSHIP_TYPE against the `name_b_a` field in `civicrm_relationship_type`.
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* Look up the RECIP_RELATIONSHIP_TYPE against both `name_a_b` and `name_b_a` in `civicrm_relationship_type`.
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Solicitor relationships are stored in a different table.  I used this SQL to extract them:
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```sql
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Attributes are the RE equivalent of custom fields.  However, unlike custom fields, they can also have a "date" value and a "comments" value.  While this can be replicated in Civi via multi-record custom field groups, ideally the data is evaluated attribute by attribute.
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Valuable information about the setup of the attributes is available in RE from *Config > Attributes*.
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* The analogous field to `civicrm_custom_field` is `AttributeTypes`.
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* All constituent attribute data is stored in the table `ConstituentAttributes` for constituents and `RELATIONSHIPATTRIBUTES` for non-constituents.  Note that it's stored in a Key-Value Pair-style table - you'll need to do a bunch of SQL queries, or run a Kettle "Row Denormaliser" step to get this data in order.
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Here's my preliminary SQL to export attributes from RE:
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```sql
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SELECT
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at.DESCRIPTION as Category
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, ca.PARENTID
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FROM ConstituentAttributes ca
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JOIN AttributeTypes at ON ca.ATTRIBUTETYPESID = at.ATTRIBUTETYPESID
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LEFT JOIN TABLEENTRIES ON ca.TABLEENTRIESID = TABLEENTRIES.TABLEENTRIESID
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To get a list of option values out of RE for the attributes, use this SQL:
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```sql
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SELECT
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Attributes can be multi-record custom fields by their nature, so you have to account for that.  Here's some alpha-grade SQL for sussing out which fields have multi-record custom fields:
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```sql
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SELECT ATTRIBUTETYPESID, PARENTID, COUNT(LONGDESCRIPTION)
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*note:*  In Civi 4.5+, you could conceivably use "EntityRef" functionality to facilitate chained selects of OptionValue lists.  That would let you create a multi-record custom field group that would very closely map how Attributes work in RE - but you'd have all the disadvantages of multi-record custom fields.
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### Salutations/addressee info
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RE stores contact salutations and addressee info in two places.
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Primary salutations/addressess are stored on the `RECORDS` table.  `PRIMARY_ADDRESSEE_ID`, `PRIMARY_ADDRESSEE`, and `PRIMARY_ADDRESSEE_EDIT`, `PRIMARY_SALUTATION_ID`,  `PRIMARY_SALUTATION`,  `PRIMARY_SALUTATION_EDIT`.
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Salutation options values are stored in the SALUTATION table, in the format "CODE1, CODE2, CODE3, etc.".  Each code refers to an id in the SALUTATION_FIELDS table, which contains tokens (e.g. "First Name", "Spouse Last Name") as well as common words like "And".
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Salutation types can be found with:
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Joseph Lacey's [Salutations extension](https://github.com/josephlacey/com.jlacey.salutations) gives CiviCRM a salutations interface comparable to Raiser's Edge.
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### Other constituent tables:
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* Spouse
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## Contribution-related exports
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### Contributions/Gifts
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Contributions (in RE parlance: Gifts) are complicated beasts!
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Here are some relevant database tables and their equivalent in Civi:
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FUND	Roughly maps to Financial Type, but you might choose to import as a custom field instead.  If you need accounting integration, FUND *must* be imported as a financial type.
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See "Campaigns, Appeals, Packages" below for more.
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Finally, note that RE has a concept of an "Adjustment".  If a gift has already been posted to the accounting software, you can't simply change the amount.  You create an adjustment, which has the updated data, and the two gift records are linked via the AdjustmentId.  This is also how pledge installments are written off (see "Pledges" below).
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Note that gift type is hardcoded into a function called "TranslateGiftType) - so you may want to include that function in your SQL, e.g.:
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```sql
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Here are the relevant tables and their equivalents in Civi:
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`GIFT` is equivalent to `civicrm_contribution` AND to `civicrm_pledge`.  Pledges and contributions are stored in the same table - so a pledge paid in six installments will have SEVEN records in the `GIFT` field.  One will be of Gift Type `Pledge` or `MG Pledge` ("Matching Gift Pledge").  MG Pledges will be on the original donor, with the payment on the matching donor.  You can also tell pledges by the presence of the `INSTALLMENT_FREQUENCY`, `NUMBER_OF_INSTALLMENTS`, `FrequencyDescription`, `REMIND_FLAG`, `NextTransactionDate` and the `Schedule*` fields.  Note that some of these might also be used for recurring contributions.  
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`Installment` and `InstallmentPayment` are, when combined, the equivalent of the `civicrm_pledge_payment` table.  `civicrm_pledge_payment` has a field `scheduled_amount` and `actual_amount`.  RE's model is somewhat superior in that it allows partial payments on a pledge installment.
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```sql
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/* Find all GIFT records with one or more associated Installment records.  These are pledges OR recurring gifts. */
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```sql
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#### Pledges as contributions
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If you're working with an organization that wants to use CiviAccounts, you'll want to track pledges as pending contributions.
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### Funds
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Funds correspond to financial types, but have far more data - start/end dates, categories - and can also have attributes (custom fields) and relationships to contacts (e.g. "endowment establisher").
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The FUND table has the main data, but `FundAttributes` and `CONSTIT_Funds` contain the attributes and relationships respectively.
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## Campaigns, Appeals, Packages
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RE's model for campaigns is hierarchical and more sophisticated than CiviCRM's.  A campaign (e.g. "Capital fundraising FY2017") can consist of several appeals (e.g. "Capital fundraising FY 2017 Spring Mailing").  Appeals will generally correspond to a particular action, especially a postal mailing.  Campaigns and Appeals _can_ be linked in a many-to-many relationship, but this is rare.  The 1-to-many is by far the most common approach.  Finally, an appeal can consist of "packages", which is a segment of your appeal.  For instance, a single mailing ("appeal") could go out to major donors, regular donors and non-donors.  You might also A/B test envelopes vs. postcards in the same mailing.  This would result in a total of six "packages" for a single appeal.  RE can track goals for each separately, and easily report on "number solicited" by package vs. number of gifts received.
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## Actions
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Actions fill the same purpose as Activities in CiviCRM, but are architected quite differently - in some ways better, some ways worse.  I don't have as much concrete info here, but here's a decent start at extracting Actions data via SQL:
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```sql
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SELECT
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  a.ADDED_BY
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, a.AUTO_REMIND
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, a.RECORDS_ID as external_identifier
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, cr.RELATION_ID as action_contact_id
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, a.DTE as activity_date_time
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, LETTER.LONGDESCRIPTION as letter
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, a.PRIORITY as priority_id
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, a.REMIND_VALUE
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, a.CATEGORY
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, a.Completed
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, a.COMPLETED_DATE
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, a.FUND_ID
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, a.FOLLOWUPTO_ID
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, a.TRACKACTION_ID
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, a.PhoneNumber as phone_number
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, a.Remind_Frequency
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, a.WORDDOCNAME
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, a.APPEAL_ID
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, a.APPEAL_LETTER_CODE
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, a.OUTLOOK_EMAIL_SUBJECT
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, STATUS.LONGDESCRIPTION as status
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, TYPE.LONGDESCRIPTION as type
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, LOCATION.LONGDESCRIPTION as location
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, ActionNotepad.ActualNotes
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, CAMPAIGN.DESCRIPTION as campaign
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FROM ACTIONS a
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LEFT JOIN TABLEENTRIES as STATUS ON a.STATUS = STATUS.TABLEENTRIESID
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LEFT JOIN TABLEENTRIES as TYPE ON a.[TYPE] = [TYPE].TABLEENTRIESID
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LEFT JOIN TABLEENTRIES as LOCATION ON a.[Location] = LOCATION.TABLEENTRIESID 
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LEFT JOIN TABLEENTRIES as LETTER on a.[LETTER_CODE] = LETTER.TABLEENTRIESID
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LEFT JOIN ActionNotepad ON a.ID = ActionNotepad.ParentId
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LEFT JOIN CAMPAIGN on a.CAMPAIGN_ID = CAMPAIGN.id
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LEFT JOIN CONSTIT_RELATIONSHIPS cr on a.CONTACT_ID = cr.ID
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```
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"Category" and "Action type" both roughly map to "Activity Type".  Same for "status" and "COMPLETED" and "COMPLETED_DATE" mapping to "activity_status".  RE lets you designate a related Campaign, Fund and Proposal; out of the box, Civi only supports Campaign.  The auto-reminder is more flexible than you can get with scheduled reminders in Civi without getting very complicated.  "Solicitors" can't be mapped to a contact reference lookup, because more than one can be stored.
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*Note:* The SQL above presumes only one note per action.  If you have multiple notes per action, the action will be represented with multiple records, one per associated note.  I'll try to provide SQL for extracting the notes separately at a later date.
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## Action Notes
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Action Notes are stored in their own table.  This maps to "Details" on a Civi activity, but you can log multiple notes per action in RE.  Here's the SQL I used to extract them in preparation:
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```sql
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SELECT
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  NotesID
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, Title
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, Description
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, Author
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, ActualNotes
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, ParentId
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, NotepadDate
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, TABLEENTRIES.LONGDESCRIPTION as Type
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```
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## Events
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Events are stored fairly similarly to CiviCRM, except:
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* locations are stored on the event record itself (which I'm not dealing with).
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* "Event Category" and "Event Type" might both map to Civi's "Event Type".  This isn't the case for me.
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* Events need not have begin/end dates.  While this is technically true for Civi, you're buying yourself a whole lot of trouble.  I'm pulling in "DATE_ADDED" to substitute in for START_DATE where none exists.
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Here's some SQL to pull in the most relevant data:
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```sql
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SELECT
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, se.END_DATE
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, se.ID
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, se.NAME
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, se.START_DATE
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, se.DATE_ADDED
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, te.LONGDESCRIPTION as activity_type
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, se.DISPLAYONCALENDAR
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, CAMPAIGN.DESCRIPTION as campaign
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```
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## Memberships
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While I haven't delved deeply into memberships, it's worth noting that RE uses SQL Views to generate the `Memberships` View, which combines the `MEMBER`, `MEMBER_JUNCTION` and `MembershipTransaction` and does some filtering to only show the most recent membership info.  `RecID` is the foreign key to `RECORDS.ID`.
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* `MEMBER` is comparable to `civicrm_membership`, with `MEMBER_JUNCTION` allowing a many-to-many relationship between memberships and contacts.
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* `MembershipTransaction` is comparable to `civicrm_membership_log` in that it tracks each change to the membership status.
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* `MembershipCategory` is comparable to `civicrm_membership_type`. `MembershipCategory.CategoryID` is a foreign key to `TABLEENTRIES`, which stores the value that maps to `civicrm_membership_type.name`.  The category (membership type) can be found at `MembershipTransaction.Category`.
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* `TransactionGift` is comparable to `civicrm_membership_payment`.  It stores the "Linked Gift" record.
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`Memberships.CurrentTransactionID` is helpful because it gives you the correct record in `MembershipTransaction` to pull info from such as category and expiration date.
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## Notes
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RE notes (stored in the "ConstituentNotepad" table) can store quite a bit of data that Civi notes can not.  They can store formatting (but with proprietary format tags, not HTML), inline photos, etc, and contain fields for date of note (separate from "Date Added" and "Date Changed"), the type of note, etc.  Fortunately, they store plain-text versions of formatted notes in their own field.  "Notes" is formatted; "ActualNotes" is plain text (except, well, where it isn't). 
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I've resolved this by removing notes over a certain length (above 15K and I assume you're a photo) and concatenating the fields I want to keep (e.g. Note Type and Description) with the ActualNotes field.
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It may be possible to export the photos in the Notes using the techniques described below under "Media".
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Here's the SQL I'm currently using to extract notes before doing transforms in Kettle:
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```sql
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SELECT
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, Author
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, ParentId
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, LONGDESCRIPTION as NoteType
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LEFT JOIN TABLEENTRIES ON NoteTypeId = TABLEENTRIESID
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```
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## Localization formats
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Raiser's Edge stores most of this info in the `COUNTRY_CODES` table, though the actual country name is stored in `TABLEENTRIES`.  This SQL will get you both:
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```sql
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Address formats (stored in Civi in `civicrm_address_format`) are stored in `COUNTRY_LABELS`.  You can add as many tokens (`FIELD_NUM`) to a line (`LINE_NUM`) and they'll appear in order of `SEQUENCE`).  I couldn't find a lookup table in the database that translated the tokens, but here it is:
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```
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5 = Country
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## Financial accounts
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I believe that their presence in RE is set by a flag `GENERAL_INFORMATION.GL_PRESENT`, with `GENERAL_INFORMATION.GL_ENG_TYPE` playing a role (I believe dealing with Financial Edge integration).
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* `FUNDDISTRIBUTION` (connector table, also connects to Gift Type and Subtype, which are also set on the Gift.  You can have different Financial Accounts based on a combination of FundId, TypeId, and SubTypeId).
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* `GLDISTRIBUTIONDETAIL` (Contains GL Account codes, etc. Looks like it contains some Quickbooks integration fields. Most similar to `civicrm_financial_account`.)
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* `GLDISTRIBUTION` (This also links to `FUNDDISTRIBUTION` but AFAICT has no data that needs migrating to CiviCRM).
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## Misc
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Some RE tables and what they're for (and their equivalents in Civi if applicable):
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`GENERAL_INFORMATION`: Similar to both `civicrm_domain` and `civicrm_settings`.  Version number, Organization name, license number, general settings, etc.
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## Media
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### Exporting from RE
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The files stored on the "Media" tab are held in the [dbo].[MEDIA] table in MS SQL.  Assuming embedded and not linked data, the files are stored in the MS Access OLE format.  It's relatively difficult to extract data from the OLE wrapper, though searching for `extract access ole` on any search engine will give you lots of options in a variety of languages.  Blackbaud even has code to do it "here":https://kb.blackbaud.com/articles/Article/58559, if you feel like using VBA.
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I opted to use a commercial software package from Yohz Software called "SQL Image Viewer":http://www.yohz.com/siv_details.htm.  If you use this tool, enter the command: 
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```sql
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Then press "Execute Query", then press "Export" when it's done.  This exports about 200 items/minute on a computer with a very slow hard drive.
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If you want to decode the OLE containers on your own, there's the "bcp":https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162802.aspx CLI tool that installs with MS SQL, and you can run a SQL query from SQL Server Management Studio that extracts your OLE containers; see "here":http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/80817/how-to-export-an-image-column-to-files-in-sql-server.  I experimented with this strategy, and this CLI command extracted an Access OLE container:
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bcp "SELECT OBJECT FROM [July_Snapshot].[dbo].[media] WHERE ID = 1210 " queryout "C:\Users\Jon\Desktop\temp\test.ole" -T -N -S HOSTNAME\RE_EXPRESS
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### Importing into CiviCRM
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The approach I took was to copy all the files into the "custom files" directory as specified in *Administer > System Settings > Directories*.  Then I used the Attachment entity of the API to import the file to an activity.  For the Media tab, I created activities especially to import the media onto.
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Here's an example of the correct usage of the API to add in image "drill.jpg" to an activity with an ID of 628:
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```php
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$result = civicrm_api3('Attachment', 'create', array(
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  'name' => "drill.jpg",
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  'mime_type' => "image/jpeg",
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  'entity_id' => 628,
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  'entity_table' => "civicrm_activity",
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  'options' => array('move-file' => "/home/jon/local/civicrm-buildkit/build/d46/sites/default/files/civicrm/custom/drill.jpg"),
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));
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Note that Civi will rename your files with random characters at the end, so this action is not idempotent.  Keep a reserve copy of your exported RE media to roll back to!
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If you use the API CSV import tool, your CSVs should look like this:
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```
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"name",entity_id,"entity_table","mime_type","options.move-file"
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"100.png",87511,"civicrm_activity","image/png","/home/jon/local/lccr/wp-content/plugins/files/civicrm/custom/100.png"
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"1000.pdf",88411,"civicrm_activity","application/pdf","/home/jon/local/lccr/wp-content/plugins/files/civicrm/custom/1000.pdf"
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```
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## And More
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### Tables that Civi doesn't have a direct counterpart for
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* Aliases (stores Maiden Name and d/b/a - unsure how to import into Civi just yet)
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* Solicitor Goals - Can be found on an RE contact record on "Bio 1" tab by clicking "Details" next to "Is a Solicitor" checkbox.  Don't know how to use them.
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Open each CSV file in Excel or similar.  Sort each field by ascending AND descending to see if any data is stored in that field.  If every record has no data or the same data, delete it - it's not being tracked in the current system.  If you see only one or two records with a particular field, they're also probably fine to go, but check with the client first.
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Next, strip out all of the constituent information except for primary/foreign keys.  I like to keep in First/Middle/Last name just for human readability though.  So leave in those three fields, plus any field with the word "ID" in it.  This is your base constituent info, and will be in every other export you do.
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Now comes the fun part!  Export each table, one at a time, by adding those fields to an export that already includes the base constituent info.
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For one-to-many relationships, the system will ask you how many instances of the information to export.  I default to 12, then look over the data to see how many are actually used, then re-export with a higher or lower number.
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I also remove records that don't contain the relevant data.  For instance, when exporting Solicit Codes, I sort by the first Solicit Code.  Then I scroll down past the folks that have Solicit Codes to those who have none, and delete the rows for folks who have none.
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Note that for simplicity's sake, RE contains many views of the tables that, if you export them all, you'll have redundant data.  There's no need to export "First Gift", "Last Gift", or "Largest Gift" - simply export all gifts.  Likewise for "Preferred Address".
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When exporting one-to-many tables that themselves contain one-to-many tables (e.g. Addresses contains Phones), do NOT select 12 of each!  That means you're exporting 144 phone numbers per record.  First determine the maximum number of addresses being tracked, re-export with that number, THEN export with phone numbers.  Also, it's reasonable to export with 5 phone numbers per address.
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NOTE: Letters sent is incomplete, there's more than 12 letters to some folks!
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GIFTS is related to constituent on the last column (Constituent System Record ID)
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### Code Tables/Option Groups/Option Values
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If you're extracting data from the SQL back-end, you'll see that the RE equivalent to Civi option groups is "code tables".  There's two functions that handle lookups: dbo.GetTableEntryDescription and dbo.GetTableEntryDescSlim.  To determine where the data is being accessed by the function, see "Deciphering MS SQL", below.  Use the "lTableNumber" passed to those functions and you'll find your data in dbo.CODETABLES (comparable to civicrm_option_group), dbo.CODETABLEMAP and dbo.TABLEENTRIES (comparable to civicrm_option_value).
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## Deciphering MS SQL
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SQL Server Profiler is a tool that lets you spy on SQL statements passed to MS SQL, which is good for determining where certain data lives.  However, RE depends on functions and stored procedures, so sometimes the SQL won't tell you exactly where to look.
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### Looking Up Functions
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These are embedded in SQL and have a nomenclature like: dbo.GetTableEntryDescSlim. Find them in SQL Server Management Studio: database > Programmability > Functions > Scalar-valued Functions.
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### Looking Up Stored Procedures
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If, in the profiler, taking a certain action shows a command like this:
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```sql
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exec sp_execute 48,43,'Acknowledgee'
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You're dealing with a stored procedure.  You need to find the corresponding `exec sp_prepexec` command (in this case, the one with a 48).  In this case, it looks like:
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```sql
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exec sp_prepexec `p1 output,N'`P1 int,`P2 varchar(255)',N'SELECT  Top 1 TABLEENTRIESID  FROM DBO.TABLEENTRIES WHERE CODETABLESID = `P1 AND LONGDESCRIPTION = `P2  ',43,'Acknowledgee'
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### Addressee/Postal Greeting/E-mail greeting
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RE has a much wider variety of greeting formats out-of-the-box.  The "spouse ID" is stored on the record to enable quick lookups of addressee greetings that include the spouse.
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It's likely that you'll want to map existing RE greetings to Civi greetings.  Here is some SQL that will show you how the current greetings in RE are constructed:
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```sql
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/****** Script for SelectTopNRows command from SSMS  ******/
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SELECT s.ID
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, sf5.FIELDNAME as FIELD5
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### Things I see that RE does better than Civi:
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* Better greetings/salutations UI out of the box.  In Civi, you must in-line edit the greetings, then press "Edit" next to the greetings, and even then you only see the tokens you'll use.  RE lets you edit with no clicks, and parses the tokens for you.
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* There's a lot more data stored in many-to-many tables.  For instance, job titles are stored in the relationship tab, reflecting the fact that someone can have more than one job.