Opening a JADE Database

When you first invoke the JADE Database utility, you must open a database before you can perform any operation other than specifying backup locations, or restoring database files or transaction journals if a database is not in a consistent state.

You can open a database only from the Database View.

To open your JADE database

1. Perform one of the following actions.

   Select the Open Database command from the File menu. (If a database is currently open, it is first closed.)

   • Press Ctrl+O.

   • Click the Open Database toolbar button.

   The Open Database dialog, shown in the following image, is then displayed.

   

2. In the Database Path combo box, specify your database directory or select the directory name from the drop down list of most recently used database paths.

   Alternatively, click the adjacent browse button (indicated by the … points of ellipsis symbol) to display the common Browse for Folder dialog that enables you to select the database directory in which the database control file (_control.dat) is located.

3. Click the OK button. Alternatively, click the Cancel button to abandon your selections.

Any other database that is currently open is then closed and your specified database is opened.