Welcome to SQuirreL SQL Client.

To specify the location of your JDBC drivers take the View Drivers from the Windows menu and select (or create) the driver that you will be using. To connect to a database take View Aliases from the Windows menu and create yourself a new alias.

To change application level settings take the Global Preferences option from the File menu. To change options for new sessions (database connections) take the New Session Properties option from the File menu. To change settings for your current session (once you have connected to an alias) take Session Properties from the Sessions menu.

There are a number of places that you can get help from:

• The online help.
• The FAQ (http://www.squirrelsql.org/index.php?page=faq).
• Search the mailing lists (http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=28383).
• And if you haven't found what you are looking for then ask a question on the Users mailing list (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrel-sql-users), but remember to subscribe first.