18. System

18.1. Drivers

Drivers pane lists all installed JDBC drivers.

Libraries Jaybird 5 Driver, Jaybird 6 Driver are installed in RDBExpert by default, that allows to work with Firebird and Red Database.

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Fig. 18.1 Drivers

To add a new driver, click on Add Driver button and fill in all fields. See Parameters for adding a driver section for detailed description of the fields.

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Fig. 18.2 Adding driver

18.2. Application log

Log records all information that is output to the standard output stream, errors and warnings. Output level can be set in Settings to limit the information contained in the log.

System output log is stored in $HOME/.RDBExpert/logs. and can be opened with any text editor, but can also be viewed with RDBExpert.

18.3. Heap memory status

RDBExpert allows monitoring current memory usage and running gubbish collection.

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Fig. 18.3 Heap memory status

18.4. Preferences

Select System \(\to\) Preferences menu item to configure the application.

Note

Almost all changes take effect when RDBExpert is restarted.

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Fig. 18.4 Preferences

See Application settings appendix for a detailed description of settings.

Portability of settings

To store RDBExpert and its settings in the same folder, follow the steps below:

  1. Close the programme;

  2. In RDBExpert/config/launcher.conf file. specify app.settings.directory=.rdbexpert and save the changes.

    • if no path is specified for the app.settings.directory parameter, the settings will be stored in the path $HOME/.rdbexpert;

    • relative path for the app.settings.directory parameter is determined relative to the file /directory c RDBExpert/rdbexpert.jar.

  3. Move the .rdbexpert folder to the root of the directory where RDBExpert is installed;

  4. Run RDBExpert.