UPDATE BEGINNER'S GUIDE. Just make it apply to v. 1.7.2. There is no longer a table system_connectioninfo. Syntax message for Server is wrong. There is a default server alias: empty string. "in-process" mode == "standalone" mode For in-process mode, ALWAYS run sql command "shutdown"! Doesn't matter if interactive w/ DatabaseManager (for example) or through jdbc. TABLE TYPES: [Default] MEMORY: Used 100% in RAM, but all changes eventually persisted to the x.script file. (Do run "shutdown" to force this in in-process databases). TEMP = non-persistent CACHE: Some data stored only on disk (in x.data). (Also uses x.backup, which is a zip of db in consistent state.) TEXT BACKUPS If backup after a CHECKPOINT SQL command, then only need to store x.properties, x.script, x.backup (don't need x.log nor x.data).