# How this guide is organized

This guide includes the following sections:

- What are the Derby tools and utilities?

  Overview of the tools and utilities, and Derby and JDBC basics for new or infrequent users.

- Using ij

  How to get started with ij, a JDBC and SQL scripting tool.

- ij properties reference

  Reference for ij properties.

- ij commands and errors reference

  Reference for ij commands and errors.

- Using the bulk import and export procedures

  Reference and how-to instructions for using bulk import and export.

- ij commands and errors reference

  Syntax for executing the built-in procedures for storing jar files in the database.

- sysinfo

  Reference information on the utility that provides information about your Derby environment.

- dblook

  dblook is Derby's Data Definition Language (DDL) Generation Utility, which is more informally called a schema dump tool. It is a simple utility that dumps the DDL of a user-specified database to either a console or to a file. The generated DDL can then be used to recreate all or parts of a database, view a subset of a database's objects (for example, those which pertain to specific tables or schemas), or document a database's schema.

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