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Conversion details

NotesDB allows you to
  • export data directly into databases or
  • create an SQL stream with all INSERT-statements necessary to export the whole database.
  • run automated on a day-by-day basis to allow automated export.
  • run only using a Notes client installation.
  • export Notes documents in HTML format including all attachments.
  • export Notes document properties to a separate properties table.
  • export Folder references of all Notes documents in a Notes database

Database size

NotesDB has no limits regarding database size. So your database can have hundred-thousands of documents and gigabytes of data.

Automatic and optimized table creation

NotesDB will scan all your documents in the database and use this data to size the database tables. So your database tables will be created depending on the maximum size of data in the document fields. NotesDB allows to add a buffer percentage so your data will be able to grow further in the RDBMS.

File attachments

File attachments are automatically exported to the local filesystem. NotesDB creates separate folders for each document and stores all attachments in it.

Configurable folder structure

The name of the folders is the DocumentUniqueID by default, but can be configured using a Notes formula. This means you can use your own unique key for the folder name of each document.

Meta-Information about all attachments

A separate database table provides information on all the attachments contained in each document. The database table provides details about the attachment:

  • filename
  • filesize (in bytes)
  • date created
  • date last accessed
  • date last modified
  • full path of the attachment

Store all attachments as BLOBs

The Enterprise Edition allows you to store the HTML content and all file attachments into your database. The HTML content will be stored as CLOB, the file attachments will be stored as BLOBs. You can customize the data type in a configuration file.

Richtext items

NotesDB allows you to convert all the richtext data into HTML-format and MS Word / RTF format easily, without any programming.

By pressing just the export richtext-button, NotesDB will extract all documents in the database in HTML format. Afterwards, you can convert the HTML documents to MS Word/Richtext format easily.

The HTML documents will include all embedded images, attachment references and any document links.

Folder references

NotesDB can export all the folders a document is contained in. This enables you to reuse the existing folder infrastructure in the new relational database.

NotesDB does this by searching through all database folders individually. This means, that this feature is independent of the new "Folder References" feature since R5, which keeps track of the folder references in a separate document item.



Read on about the supported RDBMS systems

View sample conversion results (HTML, Word Richtext) of a sample database

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