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How SQList exports lookup-columns

SQList exports the SharePoint lists in a normalised form, which means that lookup columns contain the IDs of the lookup values.

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To retrieve the lookup titles, you will need to join the various tables either in the SQL database itself o in teh reporting tool of preference.
We strongly recommend the first option as that would give you dramatically better performance.

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Please see this video that explains that approach:

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