Dbeaver

When you install DBeaver, it offers to create a sample database for you. This is worth doing – it gives you real tables with real relationships to query against, without needing to find or import your own data. This post walks through what’s in the sample database, how to connect to it, and the first queries worth running. What is the DBeaver sample database? The sample database is a SQLite database that DBeaver generates locally on your machine. SQLite stores the entire database in a single file, so there’s nothing to configure or connect to remotely – DBeaver handles it all. ...

Today, I downloaded a community copy of dBeaver and installed it. Well technically I did this a while back, but today I opened it for the first time. I’ve been meaning to write about sql and relational databases for a while now. Some sort of beginner posts to help get people started. I’ve even started doing it once or twice, but it has fizzled out for all the typical reasons: ...