duncombe/access2csv

Simple program to extract data from Access databases into CSV files.

access2csv

Simple program to extract data from Access databases into CSV files.

Features

• view the schema of the database
• export all tables to csv files named after the table
• export one table

Examples

Dumping a schema:

$ java -jar access2csv.jar myfile.accdb --schema	
CREATE TABLE Test(
	Id INT,
	Name TEXT,
)
CREATE TABLE Test2(
	Id INT,
	Name TEXT
)

Exporting all tables:

$ java -jar access2csv.jar myfile.accdb
Exporting 'Test' to /home/ryepup/Test.csv
2 rows exported
Exporting 'Test2' to /home/ryepup/Test2.csv
100000 rows exported

Export one table:

$ java -jar access2csv.jar myfile.accdb Test
1,"foo"
2,"bar"

Installation

Binaries are available at https://github.com/AccelerationNet/access2csv/releases, download a jar file from there then use it as shown above.

Compile from source

$ git clone https://github.com/AccelerationNet/access2csv.git
$ cd access2csv
$ ant

Now you should have an access2csv.jar, ready to go.

Depenencies

• Jackess - a pure Java library for reading from and writing to MS Access databases
• opencsv - CSV library

Contributing

Use https://github.com/AccelerationNet/access2csv to open issues or pull requests.