LerxtDBA (12/14/2009)
You can buy X12 exporters but they are VERY expensive and still require a lot of work to set up.
That (and import as well) is where I would rather not do SQL, though I have actually done both (which is how I learned they're not the best use of my time).
There are free X12 tools, but every one I have ever looked at (free or not) handles only the syntax level--the easy part. They expect the user to define the semantics and business logic in XML (or worse) that is more complicated than the entire program would be in VB or C#