README.md

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Welcome to Database Management done right. SQLTools provides connections to many of the most commonly used databases, making it easier to work with your data. With this tool, developers will save (a lot of) time, increase productivity and feel like a database hero ✌️

SQLTools is an open-source project maintained by Matheus Teixeira and George James Software, alongside contributions from our brilliant community of users.

If you like using this tool please leave us a review.

Features

Connects to MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server and many more...

• Beautifier and formatter for SQL code
• Query runner, history and bookmarks
• Connection explorer
• Generator for INSERT queries
• Pluggable driver architecture

Find out more in the documentation here.

Getting Started

SQLTools is a set of VS Code extensions that connect to, query, and display results from a SQL database manager. (Supported databases are listed below.)

The installation process is straightforward:

• Open VS Code
• Click the Extensions view (in the left bar), then search for @tag:sqltools-driver. This lists all the drivers available for SQLTools.
• Install the driver for your database. This also installs the core SQLTools extension.
• Click the SQLTools icon (in the left bar)
• Create a connection to your database. To do this, hover over CONNECTIONS in the SQLTools pane. Click the "Add New Connection" icon and choose the driver and enter the connection parameters.

You can then open and query it from within VS Code.

Supported Databases

To use SQLTools you will also need to install the appropriate driver extension for your database.

If the driver you want is not available, you can use our handy new drivers guide to write it yourself (and help our community in the process) or submit feedback via GitHub.

If you need a driver sooner, get in touch with the maintainers directly – we might be able to help you out.

Psst… we’re always on the lookout for maintainers for the official drivers, so let us know if this is something you’re interested in!

Official Drivers

	Driver	Marketplace	Package
	CockroachDB	Link	packages/driver.pg
	MariaDB	Link	packages/driver.mysql
	Microsoft SQL Server/Azure	Link	packages/driver.mssql
	MySQL	Link	packages/driver.mysql
	TiDB	Link	packages/driver.mysql
	PostgreSQL	Link	packages/driver.pg
	SQLite	Link	packages/driver.sqlite

Community Drivers:

	Driver	Marketplace	Maintainer and Repository
	AWS Redshift	Link	@kj-9 kj-9/sqltools-redshift-driver
	ClickHouse	Link	@ultram4rine ultram4rine/sqltools-clickhouse-driver
	Databricks	Link	@Databricks databricks/sqltools-databricks-driver
	DuckDB	Link	@RandomFractals RandomFractals/duckdb-sql-tools
	DuckDB Pro	Sign up	@RandomFractals RandomFractals/pro-data-tools#duckdb-pro-tools
	DuckDB (Latest Version Support)	Link	@Evidence evidence-dev/sqltools-duckdb-driver
	Google BigQuery	Link	@Evidence evidence-dev/sqltools-bigquery-driver
	Google Cloud Spanner	Link	@cloudspannerecosystem cloudspannerecosystem/sqltools-cloud-spanner-driver
	Google Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)	Link	@curioswitch curioswitch/sqltools-cloudsql-pg
	Hive	Link	@datafe datafe/sqltools-hive-driver
	Hologres	Link	@datafe datafe/sqltools-hologres-driver
	InterSystems IRIS	Link	@daimor intersystems-community/sqltools-intersystems-driver
	MaxCompute	Link	@datafe datafe/sqltools-maxcompute-driver
	Oracle	Link	@hashhashu hashhashu/sqltools-Oracle-driver
	SAP HANA	Link	@SAP SAP/sap-hana-driver-for-sqltools
	SingleStore	Link	@singlestore-labs singlestore-labs/sqltools-singlestore-driver
	Snowflake	Link	@koszti koszti/sqltools-snowflake-driver
	SQLite Pro	Sign up	@RandomFractals RandomFractals/pro-data-tools/sqlite-tools
	Teradata	Link	@ScriptPup ScriptPup/sqltools-teradata-driver
	Trino	Link	@regadas regadas/sqltools-trino-driver
	Vertica	Link	@vertica vertica/sqltools-vertica-driver

Related Tools

	Name	Download	Repository
	Markdown SQL Pro Tools	Sign up	RandomFractals/pro-data-tools#markdown-sql-pro-tools
	PRQL Pro Tools	Sign up	RandomFractals/pro-data-tools#prql-pro-tools

Contributing

We are grateful to our contributors for helping with this project ❤️ If you would like to join them you’ll find everything you need to know about contributing here.

Changelog

See the changelog here.

Feedback

Our aim is to build a tool that is genuinely helpful for developers. Therefore we welcome any feedback or additional feature requests – please submit them through the GitHub Issue system.

If you need help sooner, get in touch with the maintainers directly – we might be able to help you out.

About George James Software

George James Software has been providing innovative software solutions for over 35 years. We pride ourselves on the quality and maintainability of our code and we have built a number of tools to help developers achieve the same with their work. These are available as VS Code extensions here.

We also help other developers to build their own extensions. If there is a tool you need building please get in touch with us at info@georgejames.com.