OraLoader

Large quantities of information are stored in databases, and there are several such services which managed to make a name for themselves throughout the years. One of them is Oracle, and with specialized applications like OraLoader, extracting data becomes more comfortable than having to use different queries.

The first thing that needs to be done before you can access any of the application’s features is connect to your database. Needless to say that corresponding credentials must be provided, with options to also set connection type, either as OCI, or TCP/IP, and the type of database you’re attempting to reach.

After a successful login attempt, you can start importing data. This can be done from different types of sources, such as TXT files, CSV, Excel spreadsheets, as well as SQL files, with the possibility to have entire folders with such types of files imported. For more comfort, you can use dedicated wizard operations in order to load data.

With an active session, all table elements are shown in a compact, interactive preview area, along with check boxes for quick selection. Schema can be selected from a drop down menu, with an additional option to show views.

The level of detail you want to grab can be customized, with sets of options which allow you to pick a different date format, timestamp, blob field, delimiters, quotations, and the number of rows to export. Moreover, you also need to specify an output path, and file format, which can be TXT, CSV, SQL, XLS, HTML, XML, SQL loader file, and XLSX.

You don’t have to export the entire database. Different options are available so you can export from query, or just from a single table. To automate the process, the application can take advantage of the Windows scheduler to create new tasks, so info fields are automatically exported according to your specifications.

Databases usually keep piling up bits of info continuously. It’s rather difficult, and time-consuming to export data through default means, but OraLoader bundles all it takes into an intuitive structure, letting you load data from multiple file types, choose what to grab, and export under the file format you’re interested in.