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Use pgAdmin’s toolset

Use pgAdmin’s toolset

- [Narrator] Now that the browser tabs are cleared out, I'd like to turn your attention to these buttons at the top of the tree pane. Let's make sure that we have the colors table selected over here in the sidebar, and that'll activate all of these buttons and we can move through each one. The first one is called the query tool. If you hover your mouse over it, you'll see the shortcut. On a pc, it's Alt + Shift + Q, and on a Mac, the shortcut is Option + Shift + Q. The query tool gives us a new browser tab where we can write and execute our own SQL commands on the server. You'll write the SQL code up here at the top, and the results will display in the bottom pane. When you're done with the window, click on the X in the upper right hand corner to close it. You'll be prompted to save any scripts that you've written, which can make it easy to work on a complicated routine and save your work for later. The next button over is…

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