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Overview

From a PhixFlow Datasourcedatasource, you can bring up a list of open a window listing the tables in that database. The list show all the tables for the Datasource that the users For example, in the datasource properties tab, in the toolbar click on 

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. The list shows the tables that the users defined in the datasource instances have permission to view. For each table, you can bring updisplay:

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

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

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

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 button.

See also Datasource.

Detailed Table List

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

FieldDescription
OwnerThe table owner
NameThe name of the table
Tablespace NameThat tablespace this table is contained in
RowsApproximate number of rows in this table. Note that this information is based on stats collected by the database, and in some cases may not be fully up-to-date.

Table actions

You can do the following things from the table list:

  • Show To show data in table - , double-click on the table.
  • Bring up To display a simple list of the table attributes, right-click to display the context menu and select Show Table Attributes from the .
  • To display a detailed list of attributes, right-click menuBring up a databaseTableAttributesDetailedList - and select Show Attribute Details from the right-click menuCreate ; 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
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    • or right-click and select Create a Collector
    from the right-click menu

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Table Attribute Details 
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Depending on how you call display them up, database table attributes can may be shown

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

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  • or

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  • in  detailed list.

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

FieldDescription
TABLENAMEThe name of the table.
COLUMNIDThe internal id for the column.
COLUMNNAMEThe name of the attribute
DATATYPEThe data type.
CHARLENGTHFor character types, the column length in characters (not necessarily the same as the length in bytes depending on character sets).
DATAPRECISIONFor numeric types, the data precision.
DATASCALEFor numeric types, the data scale.
NULLABLEWhether or not the column allows null values.
DEFAULTLENGTHThe default length of the column.

Table attribute actions

The following actions are possible from a table attribute list:

You can select several attributes and drag them onto a

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model window. PhixFlow creates a database collector to read the selected fields from that table.