.TH HSQLDB-SQLTOOL "1" "April 2007" "HSQLDB 1.8.0.7" .SH NAME hsqldb-sqltool \- JDBC database console frontend .SH SYNOPSIS \fBhsqldb-sqltool\fR [\fIoptions\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION The main purpose of \fBhsqldb-sqltool\fR is to read your SQL text file or stdin, and execute the SQL commands therein against a JDBC database. There are also a great number of features to facilitate both interactive use (such as command-line editing and aliases) and automation (such as scripting variables and SQL transaction control and error handling). .P Please see the documentation at .I /usr/share/doc/libhsqldb-java-doc/guide/ch08.html for more information. .SH OPTIONS \fB\-\-help\fR show a brief help .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Peter Eisentraut for the Debian project.