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Flexter Data Liberator Earns Key Business Intelligence Software Recognitions from Reputed Business Software Directory

Flexter Data Liberator Earns Key Business Intelligence Software Recognitions from Reputed Business Software Directory We are proud to announce that our XML/JSON converter Flexter Data Liberator received two awards -…
Maciek February 27, 2018
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Liberating data from spreadmarts and Excel (aka OOXML)

In this blog post we liberate data and metadata from the shackles of Excel. We convert all of the content of an Excel file to a relational database and then…
Maciek February 23, 2018
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Converting XML to Hive

In this example we will use the Flexter XML converter to generate a Hive schema and parse an XML file into a Hive database. We will then use the spark-sql…
Maciek January 27, 2018
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How to convert XML to Spark Delta Tables and Parquet

The main option for converting XML on Spark to Parquet and Delta Tables is the Spark XML-Library. It is an external library that can be integrated with Spark but does…
Maciek January 25, 2018
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Convert FpML XML to Oracle Data Modeler with Enterprise Flexter

Today we will show you how easy it is to convert FpML XML files to relational tables in an Oracle database with the enterprise version of Flexter. We then reverse…
Maciek December 22, 2017
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A Library for XML Data Standards

First things first. Before we dive into the various data standards let's first explain what XML is. XML is short for Extensible Markup Language. It is used to describe data.…
Maciek November 3, 2017