Extracting data from a database

One of the most common integration tasks is to take data from an application database and write it to a file where it might be processed by another system or converted to a report. In this first example, we'll take data from a single database table and export it to a delimited file.

If you're following the examples using the source code provided for this chapter, have a quick look at the tables provided. You'll see that there are two tables, products and brands. The tables are joined by a product ID that is present in both tables. For the first example, we will simply extract the data from the products table.

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