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Learning Tabulify - Step 3 - What's a Connection ?

Connection

In the previous page, we learned that all data are known as data resource.

Data resources are stored in systems in Tabulify.

There is generally speaking two kind of systems:

A Connection is a set of properties that defines how to connect to this systems.

List

Tabulify comes with:

The default connection is the current directory of the local file system, known as the cd (for short).

In this learning guide, we used mostly:

You can see the full list with the connection list command. 

tabul connection list

name            uri
-------------   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
cd              file:///home/tabulify/
data-home       file:///home/admin/.local/share/tabul/
desktop         file:///home/tabulify/Desktop
entity          file:///opt/tabulify/resources/entity/
home            file:///home/tabulify/
howto           file:///opt/tabulify/resources/howto/
log             file:///home/tabulify/.tabul/logs
memory          mem:/
mysql           jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/howto
noop            noop
oracle          jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521/freepdb1
postgres        jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres
smtp            smtp://localhost:1025
sqlite          jdbc:sqlite:////home/tabulify/.tabul/sqlite.sqlite3
sqlite_target   jdbc:sqlite:////home/tabulify/.tabul/sqlite_target.sqlite3
sqlserver       jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;encrypt=true;trustServerCertificate=true
tmp             file:///mnt/wslg/runtime-dir/tabul/
tpcds           tpcds
tpcds_query     file:///opt/tabulify/resources/tpcds_query/

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