Will come directly to the question.
Have 2 parameter like filename and table name. The requirement is to upload the data from the excel sheet to the database table enter in the other parameter. This should be in run time. No hardcoding of field names and that program should be flexible enough to suite any table. Please help.
I can think of two possible approaches:
Dynamic code generation -- write a program which writes a program
Use dynamic type tools
For 1. try googling
For 2. see https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/Snippets/Example+-+create+a+dynamic+internal+table - this wiki shows a way (not sure if it is overkill as it creates the type from scratch whereas any table in your SAP system is already a defined type in the Data Dictionary).
You can do easily reference a parameterised table in Open SQL e.g. MODIFY (p_tab) ...
Perhaps you could do a generic SPLIT of a line read in from file by the delimiter into a table of fields - you can then use ASSIGN COMPONENT to match the fields you have read in to the fields in your internal type.
If you are doing this I think a white list of allowed tables would be wise - and auth checks. Otherwise someone could upload SAP standard tables with no authorisation.
I am new to UniVerse. I am working with an existing Database. I would like to know how to View a List of all available TABLES in the database. Is there a simply syntax command to view all TABLES?
Type "F" would only return results of physical files in that account. Type "Q" are Q-Pointers that point to physical files in other accounts. This is a way to have one file, but several accounts point to that file.
At TCL:
LIST VOC WITH F1 = "F]"
This will list all file/table entries registered in a specific account (database) on the database server.
If you're looking for all accessible files, including files that may be in other accounts (databases) on the server, use the following query:
LIST VOC WITH F1 = "F]" OR F1 = "Q]"
USE THIS SINTAXIS
a)... THIS IS FOR CONTENTS
LIST (NAME OF DATABASE)
b) ... THIS IS FOR DICTIONARY
LIST DICT (NAME OF DATABASE)
I've never touched PervasiveSql before and now I have a bunch of .ddf and .Btr files. I read that all I had to do was create a new database in the control center and point to the folder that contains these files.
When I do this and look at the database there is nothing in it. Since I am new to Pervasive, I'm more than likely sure that I'm doing something wrong.
EDIT: Added a screen shot after running command prompt
To create a database name in the PCC, you need to connect to the engine then right click the engine name and select New then Database. Once you do that, the following dialog should be displayed:
Enter the database name, and path. The path being where the DDFs are located. In most cases the default options are sufficient.
A longer process is documented at http://docs.pervasive.com/products/database/psqlv11/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=uguide/using.02.5.html.
If you pointed to a directory that had DDF files (FILE.DDF, FIELD.DDF,and INDEX.DDF) when you created the database name, you should see tables listed.
If you pointed to a directory that does not have DDF files, the database will still be created but will have no tables defined. You'll either need to get DDFs from the vendor or create the table entries using CREATE TABLE (with IN DICTIONARY clauses) or use DDF BUilder to add table entries.
Based on your screen shot, you only have 10 records in FILE.DDF. This is not enough. There are minimum system tables required (X$FILE, X$FIELD, X$INDEX, and a few others). It appears your DDFs are not a valid set. Contact the client / vendor that provided the DDFs and ask for a set that include all of the table definitions.
Once you have tables listed in your Database Name, you can use ODBC to access the data.
We have a database that has been cobbled together over the years. When I export it as a.sql file script even with the options to explicitly refer to the schema name removed a lot of stored procedures use the hard coded schema name [EpicDB].
I have a small powershell utility that is table to reconstruct a versioned database by running the various .sql files we have to make the db in order. Some of these files have hundreds of references to [EpicDB].
How can I pass a variable name from my powershell/.net code to an sql script to swap out [EpicDB] for a variable?
sqlcmd.exe and "SqlCmd Mode" allows for variables.
You'll have to change your
[EpicDB]
text
to something like
[$(MyDatabaseName)]
See:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188714.aspx
I've developed a huge table in excel and now facing problem in transferring it into the postgresql database. I've downloaded the odbc software and I'm able to open table created in postgresql with excel. However, I'm not able to do it in a reverse manner which is creating a table in excel and open it in the postgresql. So I would like to know it is can be done in this way or is there any alternative ways that can create a large table with pgAdmin III cause inserting the data raw by raw is quite tedious.
The typical answer is this:
In Excel, File/Save As, select CSV, save your current sheet.
transfer to a holding directory on the Pg server the postgres user can access
in PostgreSQL:
COPY mytable FROM '/path/to/csv/file' WITH CSV HEADER; -- must be superuser
But there are other ways to do this too. PostgreSQL is an amazingly programmable database. These include:
Write a module in pl/javaU, pl/perlU, or other untrusted language to access file, parse it, and manage the structure.
Use CSV and the fdw_file to access it as a pseudo-table
Use DBILink and DBD::Excel
Write your own foreign data wrapper for reading Excel files.
The possibilities are literally endless....
For python you could use openpyxl for all 2010 and newer file formats (xlsx).
Al Sweigart has a full tutorial from automate the boring parts on working with excel spreadsheets its very indepth and the whole book and accompanying Udemy course are great resources.
From his example
>>> import openpyxl
>>> wb = openpyxl.load_workbook('example.xlsx')
>>> wb.get_sheet_names()
['Sheet1', 'Sheet2', 'Sheet3']
>>> sheet = wb.get_sheet_by_name('Sheet3')
>>> sheet
<Worksheet "Sheet3">
Understandably once you have this access you can now use psycopg to parse the data to postgres as you normally would do.
This is a link to a list of python resources at python-excel also xlwings provides a large array of features for using python in place of vba in excel.
You can also use psql console to execute \copy without need to send file to Postgresql server machine. The command is the same:
\copy mytable [ ( column_list ) ] FROM '/path/to/csv/file' WITH CSV HEADER
A method that I use is to load the table into R as a data.frame, then use dbWriteTable to push it to PostgreSQL. These two steps are shown below.
Load Excel data into R
R's data.frame objects are database-like, where named columns have explicit types, such as text or numbers. There are several ways to get a spreadsheet into R, such as XLConnect. However, a really simple method is to select the range of the Excel table (including the header), copy it (i.e. CTRL+C), then in R use this command to get it from the clipboard:
d <- read.table("clipboard", header=TRUE, sep="\t", quote="\"", na.strings="", as.is=TRUE)
If you have RStudio, you can easily view the d object to make sure it is as expected.
Push it to PostgreSQL
Ensure you have RPostgreSQL installed from CRAN, then make a connection and send the data.frame to the database:
library(RPostgreSQL)
conn <- dbConnect(PostgreSQL(), dbname="mydb")
dbWriteTable(conn, "some_table_name", d)
Now some_table_name should appear in the database.
Some common clean-up steps can be done from pgAdmin or psql:
ALTER TABLE some_table_name RENAME "row.names" TO id;
ALTER TABLE some_table_name ALTER COLUMN id TYPE integer USING id::integer;
ALTER TABLE some_table_name ADD PRIMARY KEY (id);
As explained here http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/categories/journal/archives/339-OGR-foreign-data-wrapper-on-Windows-first-taste.html
With ogr_fdw module, its possible to open the excel sheet as foreign table in pgsql and query it directly like any other regular tables in pgsql.
This is useful for reading data from the same regularly updated table
To do this, the table header in your spreadsheet must be clean, the current ogr_fdw driver can't deal with wide-width character or new lines etc. with these characters, you will probably not be able to reference the column in pgsql due to encoding issue. (Major reason I can't use this wonderful extension.)
The ogr_fdw pre-build binaries for windows are located here http://winnie.postgis.net/download/windows/pg96/buildbot/extras/
change the version number in link to download corresponding builds.
extract the file to pgsql folder to overwrite the same name sub-folders.
restart pgsql. Before the test drive, the module needs to be installed by executing:
CREATE EXTENSION ogr_fdw;
Usage in brief:
use ogr_fdw_info.exe to prob the excel file for sheet name list
ogr_fdw_info -s "C:/excel.xlsx"
use "ogr_fdw_info.exe -l" to prob a individual sheet and generate a table definition code.
ogr_fdw_info -s "C:/excel.xlsx" -l "sheetname"
Execute the generated definition code in pgsql, a foreign table is created and mapped to your excel file. it can be queried like regular tables.
This is especially useful, if you have many small files with the same table structure. Just change the path and name in definition, and update the definition will be enough.
This plugin supports both XLSX and XLS file.
According to the document it also possible to write data back into the spreadsheet file, but all the fancy formatting in your excel will be lost, the file is recreated on write.
If the excel file is huge. This will not work. which is another reason I didn't use this extension. It load data in one time.
But this extension also support ODBC interface, it should be possible to use windows' ODBC excel file driver to create a ODBC source for the excel file and use ogr_fdw or any other pgsql's ODBC foreign data wrapper to query this intermediate ODBC source. This should be fairly stable.
The downside is that you can't change file location or name easily within pgsql like in the previous approach.
A friendly reminder. The permission issue applies to this fdw extensions. since its loaded into pgsql service. pgsql must have access privileged to the excel files.
It is possible using ogr2ogr:
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\12\bin\ogr2ogr.exe -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"host=someip user=someuser dbname=somedb password=somepw" C:/folder/excelfile.xlsx -nln newtablenameinpostgres -oo AUTODETECT_TYPE=YES
(Not sure if ogr2ogr is included in postgres installation or if I got it with postgis extension.)
I have used Excel/PowerPivot to create the postgreSQL insert statement. Seems like overkill, except when you need to do it over and over again. Once the data is in the PowerPivot window, I add successive columns with concatenate statements to 'build' the insert statement. I create a flattened pivot table with that last and final column. Copy and paste the resulting insert statement into my EXISTING postgreSQL table with pgAdmin.
Example two column table (my table has 30 columns from which I import successive contents over and over with the same Excel/PowerPivot.)
Column1 {a,b,...} Column2 {1,2,...}
In PowerPivot I add calculated columns with the following commands:
Calculated Column 1 has "insert into table_name values ('"
Calculated Column 2 has CONCATENATE([Calculated Column 1],CONCATENATE([Column1],"','"))
...until you get to the last column and you need to terminate the insert statement:
Calculated Column 3 has CONCATENATE([Calculated Column 2],CONCATENATE([Column2],"');"
Then in PowerPivot I add a flattened pivot table and have all of the insert statement that I just copy and paste to pgAgent.
Resulting insert statements:
insert into table_name values ('a','1');
insert into table_name values ('b','2');
insert into table_name values ('c','3');
NOTE: If you are familiar with the power pivot CONCATENATE statement, you know that it can only handle 2 arguments (nuts). Would be nice if it allowed more.
You can handle loading the excel file content by writing Java code using Apache POI library (https://poi.apache.org/). The library is developed for working with MS office application data including Excel.
I have recently created the application based on the technology that will help you to load Excel files to the Postgres database. The application is available under http://www.abespalov.com/. The application is tested only for Windows, but should work for Linux as well.
The application automatically creates necessary tables with the same columns as in the Excel files and populate the tables with content. You can export several files in parallel. You can skip the step to convert the files into the CSV format. The application handles the xls and xlsx formats.
Overall application stages are :
Load the excel file content. Here is the code depending on file extension:
{
fileExtension = FilenameUtils.getExtension(inputSheetFile.getName());
if (fileExtension.equalsIgnoreCase("xlsx")) {
workbook = createWorkbook(openOPCPackage(inputSheetFile));
} else {
workbook =
createWorkbook(openNPOIFSFileSystemPackage(inputSheetFile));
}
sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);
}
Establish Postgres JDBC connection
Create a Postgres table
Iterate over the sheet and inset rows into the table. Here is a piece of Java code :
{
Iterator<Row> rowIterator = InitInputFilesImpl.sheet.rowIterator();
//skip a header
if (rowIterator.hasNext()) {
rowIterator.next();
}
while (rowIterator.hasNext()) {
Row row = (Row) rowIterator.next();
// inserting rows
}
}
Here you can find all Java code for the application created for exporting excel to Postgres (https://github.com/palych-piter/Excel2DB).
the simplest answer is to use the psql command:
it's free and is include////
psql -U postgres -p 5432 -f sql-command-file.sql
I recently discovered https://sqlizer.io, it creates insert statements from an Excel file, supports MySQL and PostgreSQL. Not sure about if it supports large files though.
You can do that easily by DataGrip .
First save your excel file as csv formate . Open the excel file then SaveAs as csv format
Go to datagrip then create the table structure according to the csv file . Suggested create the column name as the column name as Excel column
right click on the table name from the list of table name of your database then click of the import data from file . Then select the converted csv file .
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