SQL Workbench/J User's Manual
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SQL Workbench/J User's Manual
Table of Contents
1. General Information
1.1. Program version
1.2. Feedback and support
1.3. Credits and thanks
1.4. Third party components
2. Software license
2.1. Definitions
2.2. Grant of Copyright License
2.3. Grant of Patent License
2.4. Redistribution
2.5. Submission of Contributions
2.6. Trademarks
2.7. Disclaimer of Warranty.
2.8. Limitation of Liability
2.9. Accepting Warranty or Additional Liability
3. Change log
4. Installing and starting SQL Workbench/J
4.1. Pre-requisites
4.2. First time installation
4.3. Upgrade installation
4.4. Starting the program from the commandline
4.5. Starting the program using the shell script
4.6. Starting the program using the Windows launcher
4.7. Configuration directory
4.8. Increasing the memory available to the application
4.9. Command line parameters
5. JDBC Drivers
5.1. Configuring JDBC drivers
5.2. Connecting through ODBC
5.3. Specifying a library directory
5.4. Popular JDBC drivers
6. Connecting to the database
6.1. Connection profiles
6.2. Managing profile groups
6.3. JDBC related profile settings
6.4. Extended properties for the JDBC driver
6.5. SQL Workbench/J specific settings
6.6. Connect to Oracle with SYSDBA privilege
6.7. ODBC connections without a data source
7. Editing SQL Statements
7.1. Editing files
7.2. Command completion
7.3. JOIN completion
7.4. Show hints for INSERT statements
7.5. Customizing keyword highlighting
7.6. Reformat SQL
7.7. Create SQL value lists
7.8. Programming related editor functions
8. Using SQL Workbench/J
8.1. Displaying help
8.2. Resizing windows
8.3. Executing SQL statements
8.4. Displaying results
8.5. Creating stored procedures and triggers
8.6. Dealing with BLOB and CLOB columns
8.7. Performance tuning when executing SQL
8.8. Macros and text clips
8.9. Using workspaces
8.10. Saving and loading SQL scripts
8.11. Viewing server messages
8.12. Editing data
8.13. Selecting values from referenced tables
8.14. Deleting rows from the result
8.15. Deleting rows with foreign keys
8.16. Navigating referenced rows
8.17. Sorting the result
8.18. Filtering the result
8.19. Running stored procedures
8.20. Export result data
8.21. Copy data to the clipboard
8.22. Import data into the result set
9. DBMS specific features
9.1. PostgreSQL specific features
9.2. Oracle specific features
10. Variable substitution in SQL statements
10.1. Defining variables
10.2. Populate a variable from a SELECT statement
10.3. Populate a variable from a file
10.4. Editing variables
10.5. Using variables in SQL statements
10.6. Prompting for values during execution
11. Using SQL Workbench/J in batch files
11.1. Specifying the connection
11.2. Specifying the script file(s)
11.3. Specifying a SQL command directly
11.4. Specifying a delimiter
11.5. Specifying an encoding for the file(s)
11.6. Specifying a logfile
11.7. Handling errors
11.8. Specify a script to be executed on successful completion
11.9. Specify a script to be executed after an error
11.10. Ignoring errors from DROP statements
11.11. Changing the connection
11.12. Controlling console output during batch execution
11.13. Running batch scripts interactively
11.14. Defining variables
11.15. Setting configuration properties
11.16. Examples
12. Using SQL Workbench/J in console mode
12.1. Entering statements
12.2. Exiting console mode
12.3. Setting or changing the connection
12.4. Displaying result sets
12.5. Running SQL scripts that produce a result
12.6. Controlling the number of rows displayed
12.7. Controlling the query timeout
12.8. Managing connection profiles
13. Export data using WbExport
13.1. Memory usage and WbExport
13.2. Exporting Excel files
13.3. General WbExport parameters
13.4. Parameters for text export
13.5. Parameters for XML export
13.6. Parameters for type SQLUPDATE, SQLINSERT or SQLDELETEINSERT
13.7. Parameters for Spreadsheet types (ods, xslm, xls, xlsx)
13.8. Parameters for HTML export
13.9. Parameters for JSON export
13.10. Compressing export files
13.11. Examples
14. Import data using WbImport
14.1. Importing spreadsheet files
14.2. General parameters
14.3. Parameters for the type TEXT
14.4. Text Import Examples
14.5. Parameters for the type XML
14.6. Parameters for spreadsheet import
14.7. Update mode
15. Copy data across databases
15.1. General parameters for the WbCopy command.
15.2. Copying data from one or more tables
15.3. Copying data based on a SQL query
15.4. Update mode
15.5. Synchronizing tables
15.6. Examples
16. Comparing databases
16.1. Compare two database schemas - WbSchemaDiff
16.2. Compare data across databases - WbDataDiff
17. Other SQL Workbench/J specific commands
17.1. Create a report of the database objects - WbSchemaReport
17.2. Search source of database objects - WbGrepSource
17.3. Search data in multiple tables - WbGrepData
17.4. Define a script variable - WbVarDef
17.5. Delete a script variable - WbVarDelete
17.6. Show defined script variables - WbVarList
17.7. Confirm script execution - WbConfirm
17.8. Run a stored procedure with OUT parameters - WbCall
17.9. Execute a SQL script - WbInclude (@)
17.10. Extract and run SQL from a Liquibase ChangeLog - WbRunLB
17.11. Handling tables or updateable views without primary keys
17.12. Change the default fetch size - WbFetchSize
17.13. Run statements as a single batch - WbStartBatch, WbEndBatch
17.14. Extracting BLOB content - WbSelectBlob
17.15. Control feedback messages - WbFeedback
17.16. Setting connection properties - SET
17.17. Changing Oracle session behaviour - SET
17.18. Changing read only mode - WbMode
17.19. Generate DROP statement with dependencies - WbGenerateDrop
17.20. Generate SQL script for database objects - WbGenerateScript
17.21. Show table structure - DESCRIBE
17.22. List tables - WbList
17.23. List stored procedures - WbListProcs
17.24. List triggers - WbListTriggers
17.25. Show the source of a stored procedures - WbProcSource
17.26. List catalogs - WbListCat
17.27. List schemas - WbListSchemas
17.28. Change the connection for a script - WbConnect
17.29. Run an XSLT transformation - WbXslt
17.30. Running operating system commands - WbSysExec
17.31. Opening a file with the default application - WbSysOpen
17.32. Using Oracle's DBMS_OUTPUT package
17.33. Change an internal configuration paramter - WbSetConfig
18. DataPumper
18.1. Overview
18.2. Selecting source and target connection
18.3. Copying a complete table
18.4. Advanced copy tasks
19. Database Object Explorer
19.1. Objects tab
19.2. Table details
19.3. Modifying the definition of database objects
19.4. Table data
19.5. Changing the display order of table columns
19.6. Customize data retrieval
19.7. Customizing the generation of the table source
19.8. View details
19.9. Procedure tab
19.10. Search table data
20. Common problems
20.1. The driver class was not found
20.2. Syntax error when creating stored procedures
20.3. Timestamps with timezone information are not displayed correctly
20.4. Excel export not available
20.5. Out of memory errors
20.6. High CPU usage when executing statements
20.7. Oracle Problems
20.8. MySQL Problems
20.9. Microsoft SQL Server Problems
20.10. DB2 Problems
20.11. PostgreSQL Problems
20.12. Sybase SQL Anywhere Problems
21. Options dialog
21.1. General options
21.2. Editor options
21.3. Editor colors
21.4. Font settings
21.5. Auto-completion options
21.6. Workspace options
21.7. Options for displaying data
21.8. Options for formatting data
21.9. Data display colors
21.10. Options for data editing
21.11. DbExplorer options
21.12. Window Title
21.13. SQL Formatting
21.14. SQL Generation
21.15. External tools
21.16. Look and Feel
22. Configuring keyboard shortcuts
22.1. Assign a shortcut to an action
22.2. Removing a shortcut from an action
22.3. Reset to defaults
23. Advanced configuration options
23.1. Database Identifier
23.2. DBID
23.3. GUI related settings
23.4. Editor related settings
23.5. DbExplorer Settings
23.6. Database related settings
23.7. SQL Execution related settings
23.8. Default settings for Export/Import
23.9. Controlling the log file
23.10. Configure Log4J logging
23.11. Settings related to SQL statement generation
23.12. Customize table source retrieval
23.13. Filter settings
Index