After your database is online, you can use any standard SQL client application to connect to the database.

Connecting to a database requires its IP address or, if configured, its fully-qualified DNS, as well as the information that you specified when you created the database: the database name, database server port number, and administrative user credentials.

You can find database information in the database Summary tab.

Prerequisites

To be able to connect to a database using its DNS, add the name when creating the database. See Creating a Database.

If you don't specify the DNS at the database creation, you can add it later. See Edit Basic Information of the Database in VMware Data Services Manager.

Procedure

  1. Select Databases from the left navigation pane.

    This action displays the Databases view, a table that lists the provisioned databases.

  2. Examine the databases listed in the table, and navigate to the database you want to access.
  3. Click the database Instance Name.

    The database Summary tab displays, which includes the required connection parameter in the Basic Information pane.

  4. Click COPY CONNECTION STRING to copy the database connection information.
    By default, the connection string includes an IP. If you configured the DNS name, the string includes the DNS name. If you added multiple DNS names, the first DNS name shows up in the string.

What to do next

For more information, see the following topics: