Each database is different, so connecting to Postgres is a little different from connecting to MySQL, which is different from connecting to SQLite. Watch out for the following pitfalls when doing JDBC ...

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...

Any of the Java-based database management GUIs tend to work fine (well, kludgy, but acceptable for simple tasks) since they are using the SQL Server JDBC driver.

// magic commands for SQL Server connection #r "nuget: Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.SqlServer, *-*" Only then can the SQL connection string be used to create a Polyglot SQL subkernel.