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| ### 3.2 Highlights: Enhancements Splash Screen now uses JVM splash screen support Netezza Plugin: Added support for displaying external tables in the object tree Updated Chinese/French translations SQuirreL SQL Client is now built, tested and released with Maven Many other improvements were made for performance and ease-of-use A number of bug fixes For all changes see Changelog. Please refer to SQuirreL's help section for an overview of all features. Download Introduction, Features, Screenshots |

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| # Overview SQuirreL SQL Client is a graphical Java program that will allow you to view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the data in tables, issue SQL commands etc, see Introduction. The minimum version of Java supported is 1.6.x as of SQuirreL version 3.0. See the Old Versions page for versions of SQuirreL that will work with older versions of Java. SQuirreL's functionality can be extended through the use of plugins. A short introduction can be found here. To see the change history (including changes not yet released) click here. For a more detailed introduction see the English or German of our paper on SQuirreL. Susan Cline graciously took the time to document the steps she followed to setup an Apache Derby database from scratch and use the SQuirreL SQL Client to explore it. Quite some time ago Kulvir Singh Bhogal wrote a great tutorial on SQuirreL and published it at the IBM developerWorks site. He has kindly allowed us to mirror it locally. The tutorial is not really up to date but especially for doing the first steps it is still of help. SQuirrel was originally released under the GNU General Public License. Since version 1.1beta2 it has been released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. |

| # Download and Installation The SQuirreL SQL Client is installed with the IzPack Java installer. Download the file squirrel-sql-<version>-install.jar and execute it using the following command: `java -jar squirrel-sql-<version>-install.jar` Make sure that you have write privileges to the directory that you want to install into. Note that some browsers may attempt to open this file rather than download it. In this case, right-click on the download link and click your browser's equivalent of the "Save as..." menu item. On Windows, execute the file squirrel-sql.bat to run the application. On Unix, the file is squirrel-sql.sh. ## The most important downloads are: Install jars (and source) of SQuirreL 3.2.0 for Windows/Linux/others Install jars (and source) of SQuirreL 3.2.0 for MacOS X Plain zip format of SQuirreL 3.2.0 Install jars of weekly snapshots for Windows/Linux/MacOS X/others Overview of all available downloads See the plugins page for instructions on installing plugins. To checkout SQuirreL from SVN use the command: `svn co https://squirrel-sql.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/squirrel-sql/trunk/sql12` Click here for detailed information on how to program SQuirreL. Click here for detailed information on the build and release system. |

| # Mailing Lists There are three mailing lists for SQuirrel. The announcements mailing list is a read-only list that will keep you informed about new versions and other information. If you have any questions about SQuirreL send them to the users mailing list. All messages sent to the announcements mailing list will also be sent to this one so you don't need to subscribe to both. For developers there is a developers mailing list. If you are interested in helping to develop SQuirreL or in writing your own plugins then this list is the one you want. Both the users and developers mailing lists only allow subscribers to post to them. This is because of past experiences with spam. |

| # SVN SVN is hosted at SourceForge. The SVN module for maintenance of the 1.1 release is squirrel-sql and development for 1.2 and 2.x is in the sql12 module. |