Practical CockroachDB: Building Fault-Tolerant Distributed SQL Databases

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R. ReidPractical CockroachDBhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8224-3_5

5. Interacting with CockroachDB

Rob Reid¹  

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Liss, Hampshire, UK

 

We’ve covered a lot of conceptual ground, and it’s now time to start using CockroachDB as an end user. We’ve created clusters and tables; now, let’s connect to them and put them to work.

Connecting to CockroachDB

When presented with a new database, the first thing you might want to do is connect to it and start querying! In this section, we’ll connect to self-hosted and cloud-based CockroachDB clusters with tools and from code.

Connecting with Tools

There are plenty of off-the-shelf tools you can use to connect to a CockroachDB ...