Importing and Exporting Data

The Navigational Data Access commands append from and copy to can respectively be used to import and export Recital data.

The SQL statements create table and insert allow data to be imported from XML files and the into, save as and to clauses supported by the SQL select statement offer a wide range of export formats for the selected rows.

Import From Text Files

Import from XML

The create table statement allows a new table to be created from metadata stored in an XML file and the data to be optionally loaded.

create table <table>
  [from] xml <.xml file> [load]

Example

create table customer2;
  from xml cust.xml load

The SQL insert statement supports the import of data from an XML file:

insert into <table> from [xml] <xml filename>

Example

insert into products;
  from xml prices.xml

Import Live Data using SQL Connectivity Functions

Export to Text Files

select <column-definition> from <table-definition> to file <filename>

Examples

select * from shippers to file shiptxt

Export to XML

select <column-definition> from <table-definition> into xml <xml filename>

or

select <column-definition> from <table-definition> save as xml <xml filename>

Examples

select employeeid, lastname, firstname;
  from employees into xml emp
select employeeid, lastname, firstname;
  from employees save as xml emp

Export to HTML

select <column-definition> from <table-definition> into html <html filename>

Export to JSON

select <column-definition> from <table-definition> into json <filename>

Importing and Exporting Data

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