Like pgAdmin, OmniDB was introduced first in Chapter 1, First Steps, as part of the Using graphical administration tools recipe. This recipe shows how it can be used to carry out some database administration tasks.
You should read the recipe we mentioned previously, if you haven't done so already, to get started with OmniDB.
Let's begin by opening the database and looking inside it:
- You will already have a connection to your local database; if you haven't, you can create one by selecting
New Connectionin theConnectionstab. This adds a new row with mostly empty fields, which you can fill before selectingSave Data:
If you open one of your connections, you can access the corresponding database server through the familiar tree view, with a right-click interface that, like pgAdmin, opens a set of available actions on that particular object.
- More generally, OmniDB offers graphical...