[database] Frontend tool to manage H2 database

How to use H2 database's integrated managment frontend?

For operations such as create table, alter table, add column, and so on.

I would like to suggest DBEAVER .it is based on eclipse and supports better data handling

I use DbVisualizer a lot for H2-db administration.

There exists a free version:

https://www.dbvis.com/download/

If you are running it as an embedded database in spring I use the following configuration to enable the built in web client when the main app is running:

<!-- Run H2 web server within application that will access the same in-memory database -->
<bean id="h2Server" class="org.h2.tools.Server" factory-method="createTcpServer" init-method="start" destroy-method="stop" depends-on="h2WebServer">
    <constructor-arg value="-tcp,-tcpAllowOthers,-tcpPort,9092"/>
</bean>
<bean id="h2WebServer" class="org.h2.tools.Server" factory-method="createWebServer" init-method="start" destroy-method="stop">
    <constructor-arg value="-web,-webAllowOthers,-webPort,8082"/>
</bean>

How about the H2 console application?

There's a shell client built in too which is handy.

java -cp h2*.jar org.h2.tools.Shell

http://opensource-soa.blogspot.com.au/2009/03/how-to-use-h2-shell.html

$ java -cp h2.jar org.h2.tools.Shell -help
Interactive command line tool to access a database using JDBC.
Usage: java org.h2.tools.Shell <options>
Options are case sensitive. Supported options are:
[-help] or [-?]        Print the list of options
[-url "<url>"]         The database URL (jdbc:h2:...)
[-user <user>]         The user name
[-password <pwd>]      The password
[-driver <class>]      The JDBC driver class to use (not required in most cases)
[-sql "<statements>"]  Execute the SQL statements and exit
[-properties "<dir>"]  Load the server properties from this directory
If special characters don't work as expected, you may need to use
 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 (Mac OS X) or CP850 (Windows).
See also http://h2database.com/javadoc/org/h2/tools/Shell.html

one discuss found here

quote from Thomas Mueller:
http://www.dbsolo.com/
http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/
http://executequery.org/index.jsp
http://sqldeveloper.solyp.com/index.html
http://sql-workbench.net/index.html
http://www.squirrelsql.org/

I would suggest Jetbrain's IDE: DataGrip https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/

I haven't used it, but RazorSQL looks pretty good.

I use sql-workbench for working with H2 and any other DBMS I have to deal with and it makes me smile :-)