Working with the database connection URL attributes You specify attributes on the connection URL. Attributes to database connection URLAttributes to database connection URLsetting

The examples in this section use the syntax of the connection URL for use in an embedded environment. You can also specify these same attributes and values on the client connection URL if you are using as a database server. For more information, see the .

You can also set these attributes by passing a Properties object along with a connection URL to DriverManager.getConnection when obtaining a connection; see . If you specify any attributes both on the connection URL and in a Properties object, the attributes on the connection URL override the attributes in the Properties object.

All attributes are optional.

Attributes are not parsed for correctness. If you pass in an incorrect attribute or corresponding value, it is simply ignored. Applications, however, should validate all attributes and not simply pass-through directives from the end-user. In particular, the traceFile and traceDirectory directives could be used to write trace logs into a branch of the file system which your application can access but which end-users can't.

For more information on working with connection URL attributes, see the following:

For complete information about the attributes, see "Setting attributes for the database connection URL" in the .

For detailed information about the connection URL syntax, see "Syntax of database connection URLs for applications with embedded databases" in the .