Quickstart

Using flags

You can start the app without passing flags or parameters, so then an interactive command prompt will ask for the connection details.

Otherwise, you can explicitly include the connection details using multiple parameters:

dblab --host localhost --user myuser --db users --pass password --ssl disable --port 5432 --driver postgres --limit 50

dblab --db path/to/file.sqlite3 --driver sqlite

Connection URL scheme is also supported:

dblab --url postgres://user:password@host:port/database?sslmode=[mode]

dblab --url mysql://user:password@tcp(host:port)/db

dblab --url file:test.db?cache=shared&mode=memory

if you're using PostgreSQL, you have the option to define the schema you want to work with, the default value is public.

dblab --host localhost --user myuser --db users --pass password --schema myschema --ssl disable --port 5432 --driver postgres --limit 50

dblab --url postgres://user:password@host:port/database?sslmode=[mode] --schema myschema

As a request made in #125, support for MySQL/MariaDB sockets was integrated.

dblab --url "mysql://user:password@unix(/path/to/socket/mysql.sock)/dbname?charset=utf8"

dblab --socket /path/to/socket/mysql.sock --user user --db dbname --pass password --ssl disable --port 5432 --driver mysql --limit 50

For more information about the available flags check the Usage section.

Using a config file

default: the first configuration after the database field.

dbladb --config

dblab --config --cfg-name "prod"

.dblab.yaml example:

database:
  - name: "test"
    host: "localhost"
    port: 5432
    db: "users"
    password: "password"
    user: "postgres"
    driver: "postgres"
    # optional
    # postgres only
    # default value: public
    schema: "myschema"
  - name: "prod"
    # example endpoint
    host: "mydb.123456789012.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com"
    port: 5432
    db: "users"
    password: "password"
    user: "postgres"
    schema: "public"
    driver: "postgres"
# should be greater than 0, otherwise the app will error out
limit: 50

Or for sqlite:

database:
  - name: "prod"
    db: "path/to/file.sqlite3"
    driver: "sqlite"

Only the host and ssl fields are optionals. 127.0.0.1 and disable, respectively.