HSQLDB-SQLTOOL(1)

πŸ’– HSQLDB-SQLTOOL(1) πŸ’–

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for hsqldb-sqltool, living in section 1 (General Commands Manual) of the HSQLDB-SQLTOOL(1) pages. yes it's a mouthful, no we're not shortening it, it's iconic πŸ’…


✨ NAME ✨

hsqldb-sqltool β€” a JDBC database console frontend πŸŽ€


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hsqldb-sqltool [options]

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

okay so the main character job of hsqldb-sqltool is literally this: it reads your SQL text file (or your stdin, whichever you vibe with) and then executes the SQL commands in there against a JDBC database. that's the whole plot. periodt. ✨

and the way that it ALSO has a genuinely huge number of features on top of that?? it's giving overachiever. these features are here to make both:

  • interactive use β€” think command-line editing and aliases, the little luxuries πŸ’…
  • automation β€” think scripting variables, plus SQL transaction control and error handling, so your scripts don't just fall over and cry 😭

if you want the full lore, please see the documentation at /usr/share/doc/libhsqldb-java-doc/guide/ch08.html for more information πŸ“š


πŸ‘‘ OPTIONS πŸ‘‘

  • --help β€” shows a brief help 🫢 (yes bestie, that's the entire option list, don't @ me)

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

this manual page was written by Peter Eisentraut for the Debian project πŸ’œ


and that's the whole page, bestie!! it's from HSQLDB 1.8.0.7, dated April 2007 β€” a true vintage queen πŸ‘‘πŸ’– thanks for reading, mwah πŸŽ€πŸŒΈ