Introduction

This section contains simple examples of DatabaseLink that give an overview of its functionality and ideas of how to get started. It will use a lightweight database, HSQLDB, that is installed as part of DatabaseLink. This allows you to try examples in the documentation without having to install your own database. Detailed reference information is found in later sections.

DatabaseLink provides two styles of interface for working with a database. A command line interface, which is more flexible and is useful for using database commands inside programs, and a graphical interface, which is simpler to use. Both interfaces are discussed in this section.

When you have finished trying these examples, you may wish to restore the example database, by using the DatabaseExamples` package.