Navicat assembles utilitarian tools to manage your databases. To start managing your databases in Navicat, the first thing you require to do is to establish your Server connection.
Create Connection
Navicat provides three typical approaches to establish your connection,
click or choose File ->
New Connection to start the setup.
- General Settings for MySQL
- General Settings for Oracle
- General Settings for PostgreSQL
- General Settings for SQLite
- SSH Settings (Available only for MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL Servers)
- HTTP Settings (Available only for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite Servers)
Note: For MySQL or PostgreSQL server, a commonly-used protocol - Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is employed for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet (see SSL Settings for details).
Navicat provides evaluated accounts for testing purpose.
The remote MySQL server connection settings are:
- Host Name/IP Address: server1.navicat.com
- Port: 4406
- User Name: navicat
- Password: testnavicat
The remote PostgreSQL server connection settings are:
- Host Name/IP Address: server1.navicat.com
- Port: 5432
- Initial Database: HR
- User Name: navicat
- Password: testnavicat
Note: Navicat authorizes you to make connection to remote server running on different platform, i.e. Windows, Mac, Linux and UNIX.
To create a new connection with the same properties as one of the existing connection has
- Right-click the connection in the navigation pane and choose
Duplicate Connection.
- The newly created connection will be named as "connectionname_copy".
Delete Connection
To delete a connection
- Right-click the connection in the navigation pane and choose
Delete Connection.
- Confirm deleting in the dialog window.
Open Connection
To open a connection
- Double-click the connection to open in the navigation pane.
Close Connection
To close a connection
- Right-click the connection in the navigation pane and choose
Close Connection.
Edit Connection
To edit a connection information
- Close the connection if it is being opened.
- Right-click the connection and choose
Connection Properties.
Export Connection Settings
To export connection settings
- Choose File -> Export Connections.
- Select the connections and the export file path.
Import Connection Settings
To import connection settings
- Choose File -> Import Connections.
- Specify the connection settings file path.
- Confirm replacing or skipping in the dialog window if the connection already exists.
Achieve Connection Information
To achieve a connection information
- Open the connection in the navigation pane.
- Right-click the opened connection and choose Connection Information.