This guide includes the following sections:

• Overview of the tools and utilities, and and JDBC basics for new or infrequent users.

• How to get started with ij, a JDBC and SQL scripting tool.

• Reference for ij properties.

• Reference for ij commands and errors.

• Reference and how-to instructions for using bulk import and export.

• Syntax for executing the built-in procedures for storing jar files in the database.

• Reference information on the utility that provides information about your environment.

• dblook is 's Data Definition Language (DDL) Generation Utility, which is more informally called a schema dump tool. It is a simple utility that dumps the DDL of a user-specified database to either a console or to a file. The generated DDL can then be used to recreate all or parts of a database, view a subset of a database's objects (for example, those which pertain to specific tables or schemas), or document a database's schema.