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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:
DBAX can be used for: