Getting started: GNOME Data Access 5 manual

## Getting started

## Features

The Libgda's console tool' main features are:

- Handle more than one connection at the same time

- Report meta data in a similar way, whatever the real type of database accessed

- Create virtual connections binding several already opened connections (to run SQL commands across multiple connections)

- Allow one to define variables which can be referenced in any SQL statement (using a common syntax)

- One query buffer per connection to edit complex queries (uses a parameter-able external editor)

- Easy command line editing and output using the Readline library and a (parameter-able) pager

- Work on any platform on which Libgda has been ported to.

- List, define or remove named data sources (DSN)

- Import and export BLOBS (binary large objects) from and to local files

- On command embedded HTTP server