After you have created your first database and your solidDB process is running, you can connect to it from any client application by using the communication ports that solidDB listens to. For example, you can use the command-line tool solidDB SQL Editor (solsql).

The communication port is defined by configuring the Listen parameter in the [Com] section of the solid.ini file, see Communication section (server-side).

For the evaluation version of solidDB, the following communication ports are defined in the solid.ini file in the eval_kit\standalone\ directory: