I've never faced with accents, so, not sure about this case. But I see many useful use cases for using slugify in SQL. But this feature looks more complex in realization. There are many realizations in many languages, but no standard at all.

For the info, slug, slugify, translates string in any language to ASCII, URL compatible string.

For instance, it would help to get a cost-effective, language-independent index, but with a quite correct order.

In VSCode you just had to open any local folder. And it's a manual choice. 

When you opened any folder, which is supposed to be as a project root. Configured the server connection, you then should be able to open ObjectScript Server Explorer (by InterSystems logo icon). There you can observe your code on the server, and do export from context menu. Export will be logged to ObjectScript output, with full path's of exported items. Go to File explorer in VSCode (default view), and from context menu on any folder or class, you will have action Import and compile.

Extracting such amount of data with using JDBC/ODBC, will be much slower than any sort of native access in Cache.

InterSystems Cache offers a way to export the whole table, with selected columns

Open System Management Portal, System Explorer, SQL. Switch to the desired namespace. Click on Wizards and select Data Export

The next steps should be pretty much simple, just select what you need to export and starts in the background. So, you will be able to control how it is going.

Look at the documentation for more details

@Bob Kuszewski, what do you mean by better processes? What does it mean for jdbc driver or any other jar files, which have only one place where they supposed to be published is, maven central. Currently, InterSystems - JDBC and InterSystems XEP just contain empty files, which have to be deleted.

JAR files here, just only 155 bytes in size or even less.

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/intersystems/intersystems-jdbc/3.0.0/

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/intersystems/intersystems-jdbc/2018.1...

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/intersystems/intersystems-xep/2018.1....