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

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