Or from Database Navigator drop-down menu. You can open the driver manager from the main menu: Adding driver configuration in DBeaver Open driver manager dialog Sometimes the jar files are included in the database server distribution - in that case you need to refer to your database documentation or ask your DBA. You need to download the driver's jar files before adding them to DBeaver.
The Jar file is a library which contains program code and some other files. The JDBC driver consists of one or multiple jar files. The JDBC driver is usually provided by database vendors to allow customers to work with their databases. It usually provides all needed functionality to cover 100% of database functionality.
JDBC driver is a program (in Java) which can connect and operate with some local or remote database server. You can use a pre-configured database driver or create a new driver.ĭBeaver has a lot of pre-configured drivers including SQL, NoSQL, key-value databases, graph databases, search engines, etc.īut sometimes you need to connect to a database which was not configured in DBeaver yet.Īll you need is a JDBC driver of your database.
