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Re: DB in temporary directory

by Kilian Evang-4 :: Rate this Message:

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Hi Francois,

On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 18:02 -0700, Francois Orsini wrote:
> You might want to use an in-memory DB if you don't need to preserve it
> across new instances...
>
> Derby's In-Memory instrumental feature has been added in 10.5.1 which
> is now available.

neat! However, I use the DB mainly to avoid running out of memory, so I
think this is not an option for me.

> If you still want to create your database in a temp directory, you
> could do it such as:
> //Unix-like
> connect 'jdbc:derby:/tmp/MyDBNAME;create=true';
>
> or
>
> // Windows
> connect 'jdbc:derby:C:/temp/MyDBNAME;create=true';

Thanks a bunch, this worked!

~ Kilian

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