New Connection Wizard

The New Connection Wizard is available from the Connection Tool, which can be launched either from the Database Explorer or by executing the command OpenSQLConnection[]. It will create a new named connection that can be used for future uses of DatabaseLink. The information about the connection will be written in a configuration file as described in the DatabaseResources Directories section.

The wizard takes you through the following steps for creating a new connection.

1. Overview.
2. Name the connection.
3. Select the location to save the configuration file.
4. Select the Database Type.
5. Specify the URL for connection.
6. Specify the username and password.

A view of the fourth step is shown in the following picture. In this step, the type of the database is selected from a list of possible types. There is also a button for entering a new type of database. The list of possible types is those that have been installed in the system as described in the JDBC configuration section.

Each screen of the wizard has a full description. When it has finished, a new named connection has been created. This can be used by OpenSQLConnection and will show up in the Connection Tool.