Export MariaDB table to HTML using dynamic filename with current date

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Export data from MariaDB table to HTML file using dynamic filename with date and time

Login to MariaDB -> Choose MariaDB table -> Set HTML filename template including date -> Export MariaDB to HTML using current date as file name

Choose MariaDB and logon.

“Export From Table” for “HTML to MariaDB“.

Select HTML file type.

1. Choose MariaDB table.

2. Set HTML file options. Enter filename template, including date, #yyyy# is for current year, #mm# month, #dd# day, #hh# hour, #mi# minute, #ss# second.

3. Set rows options.

4. Export MariaDB table data to HTML file. Dynamically created HTML file name using present system time.

After exporting, you can view output HTML files.

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MariaDB → HTML reference

Type mapping

Value kind	in MariaDB	in HTML
Int	INT	<td>1234</td>
Bigint	BIGINT	<td>9007199254740993</td>
Decimal	DECIMAL(p,s)	<td>1234.56</td>
Float	DOUBLE	<td>1.234e+10</td>
Text	VARCHAR(n)	<td>text</td>
Long text	LONGTEXT	<td>multi-line text</td> (entities for &amp; &lt;)
Date	DATE	<td>2026-09-18</td>
Datetime	DATETIME	<td>2026-09-18 14:30:00</td>
Binary	LONGBLOB	not representable in a cell
Boolean	TINYINT(1)	<td>true</td>
JSON	JSON	<td>{&quot;a&quot;:1}</td> (quotes escaped)

Dialect differences

MariaDB is a database server and HTML is a file format, so the gap is wider than a dialect difference - the rows below are where values and structure stop lining up.

Property	in MariaDB	in HTML
port	3306	—
identifiers	`backtick`	Attribute values in quotes; entities for reserved characters
row limit	LIMIT n	—
dates	DATETIME, TIMESTAMP, DATE, TIME	Whatever text was rendered
long text	TINYTEXT / TEXT / MEDIUMTEXT / LONGTEXT	—
binary	BLOB / TINYBLOB / LONGBLOB	data: URIs inside src attributes
separator	—	Tags, not delimiters
encoding	—	Declared in a meta charset tag or the HTTP header
typing	—	None
shape	Tables of rows and columns	Free form; tables are row/column structures inside markup
ceiling	—	No formal limit

Command line

Side	Command
MariaDB	mariadb-dump
MariaDB (load)	mariadb-import, or LOAD DATA INFILE

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