Connection Settings

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.

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:

The remote PostgreSQL server connection settings are:

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

Delete Connection

To delete a connection

Open Connection

To open a connection

Close Connection

To close a connection

Edit Connection

To edit a connection information

Export Connection Settings

To export connection settings

Import Connection Settings

To import connection settings

Achieve Connection Information

To achieve a connection information