View content of H2 or HSQLDB in-memory database

Question

Is there a way to browse the content of an H2 or an HSQLDB in-memory database for viewing? For example, during a debugging session with Hibernate in order to check when the

Answer 1

This is more a comment to previous Thomas Mueller's post rather than an answer, but haven't got enough reputation for it. Another way of getting the connection if you are Spring JDBC Template is using the following:

jdbcTemplate.getDataSource().getConnection();

So on debug mode if you add to the "Expressions" view in Eclipse it will open the browser showing you the H2 Console:

org.h2.tools.Server.startWebServer(jdbcTemplate.getDataSource().getConnection());

Eclipse Expressions View

H2 Console

Answer 2

I don't know why is it working fine at yours machines, but I had to spend a day in order to get it is working.

The server works with Intellij Idea U via url "jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9092/~/default".

"localhost:8082" in the browser alse works fine.

I added this into the mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close" depends-on="h2Server">
    <property name="driverClassName" value="org.h2.Driver"/>
    <property name="url" value="jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9092/~/default"/>
    <property name="username" value="sa"/>
    <property name="password" value=""/>
</bean>

<bean id="h2Server" class="org.h2.tools.Server" factory-method="createTcpServer" init-method="start" destroy-method="stop" depends-on="h2WebServer">
    <constructor-arg>
        <array>
            <value>-tcp</value>
            <value>-tcpAllowOthers</value>
            <value>-tcpPort</value>
            <value>9092</value>
        </array>
    </constructor-arg>
</bean>

<bean id="h2WebServer" class="org.h2.tools.Server" factory-method="createWebServer" init-method="start" destroy-method="stop">
    <constructor-arg>
        <array>
            <value>-web</value>
            <value>-webAllowOthers</value>
            <value>-webPort</value>
            <value>8082</value>
        </array>
    </constructor-arg>
</bean>

Answer 3

You can expose it as a JMX feature, startable via JConsole:

@ManagedResource
@Named
public class DbManager {

    @ManagedOperation(description = "Start HSQL DatabaseManagerSwing.")
    public void dbManager() {
        String[] args = {"--url", "jdbc:hsqldb:mem:embeddedDataSource", "--noexit"};
        DatabaseManagerSwing.main(args);
    }
}

XML context:

<context:component-scan base-package="your.package.root" scoped-proxy="targetClass"/>
<context:annotation-config />
<context:mbean-server />
<context:mbean-export />

Answer 4

For HSQLDB, The following worked for me:

DatabaseManager.threadedDBM();

And this brought up the GUI with my tables and data once I pointed it to the right named in-mem database.

It is basically the equivalent of newing up a DatabaseManager (the non Swing variety), which prompts for connection details, and is set to --noexit)

I also tried the Swing version, but it only had a main, and I was unsure of the arguments to pass. If anyone knows, please post here.

Just because I searched for hours for the right database name: The name of the database is the name of your datasource. So try with URL jdbc:hsqldb:mem:dataSource if you have a data source bean with id=dataSource. If this does not work, try testdb which is the default.

Answer 5

In H2, what works for me is:

I code, starting the server like:

server = Server.createTcpServer().start();

That starts the server on localhost port 9092.

Then, in code, establish a DB connection on the following JDBC URL:

jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9092/mem:test;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1;MODE=MySQL

While debugging, as a client to inspect the DB I use the one provided by H2, which is good enough, to launch it you just need to launch the following java main separately

org.h2.tools.Console

This will start a web server with an app on 8082, launch a browser on localhost:8082

And then you can enter the previous URL to see the DB