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Form data database location

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Could someone please point me to the location of where individual form response data is stored in the Epi database? I see a number of views with form data (e.g., VW_FormData_XXXXX....) but trying to map to a specific form.

#261003
Aug 23, 2021 19:33
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Hi,

Forms data is stored in Dynamic Data Store.

Have you tried using IFormDataRepository.GetSubmissionData() ?

#261004
Aug 23, 2021 20:48
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Thanks for the response but I was actually trying to access the form data directly within the database. I'm looking to create a SQL job to extract the data into a temp table for additional processing outside of the CMS but can't locate where it s stored in the DB.

#261039
Aug 24, 2021 0:37
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The data is stored in the DDS under the tblBigTable table

#261047
Aug 24, 2021 9:16
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I strongly advise against accessing database directly. In case of Form, it can be quite complicated. Form is stored in DDS as Dejan and Scott mentioned, but it's not neccessarily in the tblBigTable. It can be in FormData_<Guid> table

Using the API is slower but definitely safer and more future proof

#261048
Aug 24, 2021 9:26
Scott Reed - Aug 24, 2021 9:28
Interesting, was going off memory but it's been a long time since I've looked in the form data directly.
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Thanks for the advice but I am only trying to extract data into another database using a job from the external database so not altering the DB directly.  Any way to cross reference the form to the corresponding FormData view? I have lots of forms!

#261098
Edited, Aug 25, 2021 20:43
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Can you not use the import export feature of forms https://webhelp.optimizely.com/15-1/EN/Content/EN/CMS%20Edit/Edit_Forms.htm#:~:text=Exporting%20forms,and%20click%20Import%20or%20Export

If you're just trying to export and import between systems. If you want to compare you could extract to Excel instead and load the dataset or just use excel to do it

#261132
Aug 26, 2021 7:56
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you can find the data in tblBigTable but as data get store in DDS it's not easy to fetch 

#261899
Sep 08, 2021 8:57
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