Connection Settings

Navicat assembles utilitarian tools to manage your databases. To start managing your databases in Navicat, the first thing you require to do is to establish your server connection.

Create Connection

Navicat provides three typical approaches to establish your connection, click or click -> New Connection under the navigation pane or choose Connection -> New Connection to start the setup.

Note: For MySQL or PostgreSQL server, a commonly-used protocol - Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is employed for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet (see SSL Settings for details).

Navicat provides evaluated MySQL and PostgreSQL accounts for testing purpose.

The remote MySQL server connection settings are:

The remote PostgreSQL server connection settings are:

Note: Navicat authorizes you to make connection to remote server running on different platform, i.e. Windows, Mac, Linux and UNIX.

To create a new connection with the same properties as one of the existing connection has

Remove Connection

To remove a connection

Open Connection

To open a connection

Close Connection

To close a connection

Edit Connection

To edit a connection information

To change the name of a connection

Open Connection Settings Save Path

To open a connection settings save path

Export Connection Settings

To export connection settings

Import Connection Settings

To import connection settings

Achieve Connection Information

To achieve a connection information