Batch convert SQL files to HTML table files

Shiji Pan

1 year ago

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Batch convert SQL files to HTML tables

Click “Start a New Convert” at task dialog.

then show the wizard.

Select From “Files” “SQL” To “Files” “Html”.

And config the first source SQL file.

List source SQL files.

After converting, you can view output HTML tables.

Value kind	in SQL	in HTML
Int	`INT`	`<td>1234</td>`
Bigint	`BIGINT`	`<td>9007199254740993</td>`
Decimal	`DECIMAL(p,s)`	`<td>1234.56</td>`
Float	`DOUBLE PRECISION`	`<td>1.234e+10</td>`
Text	`VARCHAR(n)`	`<td>text</td>`
Long text	`TEXT / CLOB`	`<td>multi-line text</td> (entities for & <)`
Date	`DATE`	`<td>2026-09-18</td>`
Datetime	`TIMESTAMP`	`<td>2026-09-18 14:30:00</td>`
Binary	`BLOB / BYTEA`	`not representable in a cell`
Boolean	`BOOLEAN / SMALLINT`	`<td>true</td>`
JSON	`JSON / TEXT`	`<td>{"a":1}</td> (quotes escaped)`

Both SQL and HTML are file formats, so what differs below is how each one chooses to represent a value.

Property	in SQL	in HTML
identifiers	`Two competing conventions: single-quoted literals and diale...`	`Attribute values in quotes; entities for reserved characters`
dates	`Depends on the dialect: DATE literals, TO_DATE(), or plain ...`	`Whatever text was rendered`
binary	`Dialect-specific: X-quoted literal, 0x hex, or decode()`	`data: URIs inside src attributes`
separator	`Statement terminators (;)`	`Tags, not delimiters`
encoding	`No declaration`	`Declared in a meta charset tag or the HTTP header`
typing	`Types belong to the target database, and they differ betwee...`	`None`
shape	`Statements; a dump usually means CREATE TABLE plus INSERT rows`	`Free form; tables are row/column structures inside markup`
ceiling	`No formal limit, but a single INSERT statement has to fit i...`	`No formal limit`

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