Database package

Databases support internal operations of an enterprise by storing a variety of data, such as sales transactions, product catalogs, inventories, and customer profiles. Use the Database package to connect to a database, begin a transaction, and manipulate the stored data by retrieving, inserting, updating, deleting, and exporting it to a CSV file.

Before you start

Perform the following actions within the Database package as part of using the set of available actions:

Note: When you use actions such as Read from, Run stored procedure, or Export to data table to retrieve records from a MS SQL Server table which has a bit type column or an Excel column (with TRUE or FALSE values), then the retrieved data will be referred to 0 and 1, not TRUE and FALSE.

Establish a connection with the database server using the Connect action.
See Using Connect action for database.
Choose from the following:
- Use the Read from action to retrieve records from the database. See Using the Read from action.
- If you are automating a task that involves making changes to the database, insert the Begin database transaction action, followed by the actions that automate the changes.
  This action ensures that all records are updated or deleted in their entirety, and prevents accidental updates or deletions of incomplete data if the bot encounters an error during run time.
If you used the Begin database transaction action in this session, insert the End database transaction to commit the changes.
Every set of database actions ends with the Disconnect action to terminate the connection to the database server.

Database data types

Data types represent the type of value that can be stored in the database table. The following table provides information about the widely used data types in Automation 360. Note that this is not a comprehensive list.


Data type	Value
Supported data types	Char, Varchar, Nvarchar, Number, Datetime, INT, Float, and Bit
Unsupported data types	Binary data types: Binary, BLOB, CLOB, BFILE, and RAW Pointer data types: Cursor and Record pointers

Actions in the Database package

The Database package includes the following actions:


Action	Description
Begin database transaction	See Begin database transaction action.
End database transaction	See End database transaction action.
Connect	See Using Connect action for database. The Snowflake database using the ODBC driver is supported.
Disconnect	See Disconnect action.
Read from	See Using the Read from action. The Snowflake database using the ODBC driver is supported.
Run stored procedure	See Using the Run stored procedure action.
Export to data table	See Using the Export to data table action. The Snowflake database using the ODBC driver is supported.
Manage stored procedure	See Manage stored procedure action.
Insert/Update/Delete	See Insert/Update/Delete action.