g.gui.dbmgr(1)

💖 g.gui.dbmgr — the GRASS GIS User's Manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about g.gui.dbmgr — it's a little icon in the GRASS GIS User's Manual and it's literally the moment your vector map's attribute table becomes a whole vibe ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

g.gui.dbmgr — Launches graphical attribute table manager.

like. it launches it. graphically. the attribute table manager. she's a whole GUI girlie 💅

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🌸 KEYWORDS 🌸

general, GUI, attribute table, database

(yes those are the tags, no cap, that's just how the manual indexes her 🫶)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

g.gui.dbmgr
g.gui.dbmgr --help
g.gui.dbmgr map=name  [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

🦋 Flags 🦋

• --help — Print usage summary. she'll tell you how she works, iconically.
• --verbose — Verbose module output. she will NOT be gatekeeping the details.
• --quiet — Quiet module output. lowkey mode, she's just doing her job, no commentary.
• --ui — Force launching GUI dialog. bestie said I want the window, and she delivers.

🌈 Parameters 🌈

• map=name [required] — Name of vector map. Or data source for direct OGR access. yes it's required, no you cannot skip it, that's the whole assignment 😭

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

The Attribute Table Manager is a wxGUI component to query, edit, and manage attribute data for vector maps. she's that girl. the attribute table manager can be launched by clicking on icon in the toolbar (you know the one), and it's also available as a stand-alone module: g.gui.dbmgr.

Attribute table manager allows you to:

• browse attribute data of vector map, perform SQL select statements;
• modify attribute data, insert new records to attribute table, delete existing records;
• highlight selected items in the Map Display Window;
• extract selected items into a new vector map;
• modify attribute table - add, drop, rename columns;
• modify vector map DB connection settings - add, remove or modify layers.

Figure: Simple attribute filtering using Attribute Table Manager.

ngl the range?? browsing AND editing AND highlighting AND extracting AND column surgery AND connection settings?? she contains multitudes fr fr 💖

🧚 SQL Builder 🧚

Figure: Attribute filtering using Attribute Table Manager and SQL Builder.

(that's the SQL Builder subsection. she gets her own figure because she's the main character 💜)

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💫 SEE ALSO 💫

• wxGUI, wxGUI components
• db.columns, db.connect, db.describe, db.drivers, db.execute, db.select, db.tables
• v.db.addcolumn, v.db.connect, v.db.dropcolumn, v.db.renamecolumn, v.what

See also wiki page including video tutorials.

video tutorials?? we LOVE a resource with moving pictures, go watch them bestie 🎀

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Martin Landa, FBK-irst (2007-2008), Trento, Italy, and OSGeoREL at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Michael Barton, Arizona State University, USA Jachym Cepicky

(three absolute legends, we stan 🌟)

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💅 SOURCE CODE 💅

Available at: wxGUI Attribute Table Manager source code (history)

Accessed: Saturday Jan 17 05:42:35 2026

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was GRASS 8.4.2's g.gui.dbmgr(1) manual page — go forth, open that attribute table, and slay 💖✨🦋🌸🎀💅🫶👑🌈⭐💜