Forms: Table

A Table is a reference to an external database table object.

Form: Table Details List

There are two forms of the Table list:

• Detailed list - Shows the table name plus other (database specific) details
• Simple list - Just shows the table names

In both cases the lists show all the tables for the parent Datasource that the user defined in the Datasource Instance has permission to view.

The list below gives the column headers returned for an Oracle database.

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Overview

From a PhixFlow datasource, you can open a window listing the tables in that database. For example, in the datasource properties tab, in the toolbar click on 

• the data in the table
• a list of the attributes defined in that table

Depending on where you open the table list from, it will be either a simple list with only the name of each table, or a detailed list.

The database tables list has a toolbar with common buttons. You can export data from a detailed list using the 

See also Datasource.

Detailed Table List

In the detailed table list, the following fields are shown for each table:

Table Actions

The following actions are possible from a Table list:

• Double clicking on a Table entry pops up a Data Grid showing the first page of data returned from the table.
• Dragging a table and dropping it on a modelling pane creates a Database Collector which is linked to the original Datasource. The Collector will be set up to fetch all the table fields and all the table data.
• From the right-click context menu you can choose to view the table attributes (a simple or detailed list). See Table Attributes.

See Also

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You can do the following things:

• To show data in table, double-click on the table.
• To display a simple list of the table attributes, right-click to display the context menu and select Show Table Attributes.
• To display a detailed list of attributes, right-click and select Show Attribute Details; see Table Attribute Details below.
• To export data from a table, use the 

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   button; see Download CSV or Excel Data.
• To create a collector for the stream, 
  • either drag the table onto a model view
  • or right-click and select Create a Collector.

Table Attribute Details 

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Depending on how you display them, database table attributes may be

• either in a simple list, with only the name of each attribute
• or in  detailed list.

In the detailed list, the following fields are shown for each attribute:

You can select several attributes and drag them onto a model window. PhixFlow creates a database collector to read the selected fields from that table.