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DBAX is a database utility program for communicating with a SQL database. It was designed to map XML data files to database tables and vice-versa, and to provide a generic XML-based web-service for database access. However, it can also move data in simple text column format into and out of database tables (or XML table files). DBAX itself is not a database program – it simply acts as a user-interface for accessing a database (e.g. Postgres). At a minimum DBAX expects that a database has already been created and a SQL-server is running for for that database.

Currently DBAX has been implemented for Postgres. For instructions on setting up a Postgres database, see Postgres.

DBAX can be used in 3 different ways:

• as a database client – Talks directly to the database
• as a DBAX web-service – Lets web clients talk to the database via an XML-based network interface
• as a [jvs:dbax:dbaxclient|DBAX web-service client]] – A web client for talking to the DBAX server

DBAX can be used for:

• managing (creating and removing) database tables - (Managing)
• viewing data in database tables - (Viewing)
• importing/exporting database tables - (Importing)
• editing database tables - (Editing)
• querying database tables - (Queries)
• backing-up database tables - (Backup)