Introduction

## Introduction

If you notice any mistakes in this document, please email the author listed at the beginning of the chapter. If you have problems with the procedures themselves, please use the HSQLDB support facilities which are listed at http://hsqldb.org/web/hsqlSupport.html.

## Available formats for this document

This document is available in several formats.

You may be reading this document right now at http://hsqldb.org/doc/guide, or in a distribution somewhere else. I hereby call the document distribution from which you are reading this, your current distro.

http://hsqldb.org/doc/guide hosts the latest production versions of all available formats. If you want a different format of the same version of the document you are reading now, then you should try your current distro. If you want the latest production version, you should try http://hsqldb.org/doc/guide.

Sometimes, distributions other than http://hsqldb.org/doc/guide do not host all available formats. So, if you can't access the format that you want in your current distro, you have no choice but to use the newest production version at http://hsqldb.org/doc/guide.

Table 1. Alternate formats of this document

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PDF | guide.pdf | http://hsqldb.org/doc/guide/guide.pdf

Hsqldb User Guide |  | Chapter 1. Running and Using Hsqldb