# How can i create a table from a DB?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-table-from-a-db/27779
**Category:** General
**Created:** [4 June 2020 16:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-table-from-a-db/27779 "2020-06-04T16:44:13Z")
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### Author:  [@DAVIDLL](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/DAVIDLL)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 16:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-table-from-a-db/27779/1 "2020-06-04T16:44:13Z")
Hey! i'm new on node red, and i'm doing a project with ESP32 and node red.
I'm sending values using MQTT to a database (Mysql). I read the values from the DB but i don't know how to show the DB table on the node red. I searched everywhere in internet and tried some functions but no results. i'm stuck with this one week and don't know where to find a solution. Could you help me? thanks!
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### Author:  [@Andrei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Andrei)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 16:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-table-from-a-db/27779/2 "2020-06-04T16:59:58Z")
Hi @DAVIDLL, welcome to the forum.
You seem to be in right path. I can see that you have a ui\_table in your flow. It would be just a matter of configuring this node correctly. Did you read teh node documentation and tried to use it ?
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### Author:  [@DAVIDLL](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/DAVIDLL)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 17:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-table-from-a-db/27779/3 "2020-06-04T17:16:46Z")
Hi @Andrei, yes! i checked the documentation and i configured the node to have three columns, and i tried doing a function that receives the values from the data base and write in the table but, theres something bad. I show you in the next two pictures:
 
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 18:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-table-from-a-db/27779/4 "2020-06-04T18:30:11Z")
Export your flow and paste it in a response - make sure to read this: [How to share code or flow json](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-share-code-or-flow-json/506) first.
Also show some more of the data being retrieved.
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### Author:  [@Andrei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Andrei)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 18:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-table-from-a-db/27779/5 "2020-06-04T18:33:40Z")
The most important thing is that you provide an array of objects to the ui\_table node. The picture in your first flow shows that your flow is providing the data perfectly formatted. Well done.
If you connect the ui\_table node directly to the output of the database node the table should be populated, even if you do not add any configuration field to the ui\_node (just input the name of the dashboard group and its size).
Now, if you want to enter the configuration data in the ui\_node then you need to make sure that the name of the Property in the ui\_configuration matches exactly the name of the keys in the object you pass to the ui\_node.
Eg. Configure Property as "Consumo" not "ConsumoWh" so as it matched with the object key (Consumo).
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### Author:  [@DAVIDLL](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/DAVIDLL)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 18:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-table-from-a-db/27779/6 "2020-06-04T18:36:35Z")
Hi, heres my flow:
```auto
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newMsg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":690,"y":980,"wires":[[]]},{"id":"a1041d14.0ae6d","type":"mqtt-broker","z":"","name":"BrokerLocal","broker":"localhost","port":"1883","clientid":"","usetls":false,"compatmode":true,"keepalive":"60","cleansession":true,"birthTopic":"","birthQos":"0","birthPayload":"","closeTopic":"","closeQos":"0","closePayload":"","willTopic":"","willQos":"0","willPayload":""},{"id":"9ef090e5.cb6f7","type":"MySQLdatabase","z":"","name":"","host":"127.0.0.1","port":"3306","db":"DB_ConsumoVivienda","tz":""},{"id":"363bb5d4.e9ee2a","type":"ui_group","z":"","name":"BASE DE DATOS","tab":"c5752f39.df5a6","order":1,"disp":true,"width":12,"collapse":false},{"id":"c5752f39.df5a6","type":"ui_tab","z":"","name":"BASE DE DATOS / HISTORIAL","icon":"storage","order":4,"disabled":false,"hidden":false}]
```
In the data base i just have three columns: Hour, Consumption (Consumo in spanish) and Price (it's not filled yet). And i'm getting an array with the values on each row like i showed in the question. Is that information enought?
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### Author:  [@DAVIDLL](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/DAVIDLL)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 18:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-table-from-a-db/27779/7 "2020-06-04T18:43:22Z")
Wow! It was obvious and I have not been able to see the error in the table settings. Thank you so much!
Can I ask another question?
Could you help me do a data history (with the datapicker node)?
I added the datapicker to the same group, but i don't know how to make that the table changes the values with the date i pick. Maybe this has to be made at Mysql data base?
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 19:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-table-from-a-db/27779/8 "2020-06-04T19:17:46Z")
You might be able to clean up your flow quite a bit using a wildcard character in the mqtt-in topic/ If the topic was `/local/CT/*` any mqtt topic starting with `/local/CT/` would be received. You could then add a change node and a template node after that to build the SQL query.
In the change node use
that will grab the third level of the topic and put it in msg.hour - next add a template node to build the SQL query like this:
and you would replace 24 nodes with 2. This assumes the third level is always one of those hours. I not, you could add a switch node after the mqtt-in to test for those twelve conditions (use the 'contains' option) and ignore anything but those 12 cases. However this will mean you haave to use three nodes instead of just two 😭
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### Author:  [@DAVIDLL](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/DAVIDLL)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 19:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-table-from-a-db/27779/9 "2020-06-04T19:32:26Z")
Thanks for your answer, i will work on cleaning my flow, appreciate your help!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [18 June 2020 19:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-create-a-table-from-a-db/27779/10 "2020-06-18T19:32:26Z")
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