Creating and using common connection
configurations
You can store common database connection information, called connection
configurations, in a database or configuration repository,
so that team members can easily access and reuse the connection information.
When you use connection configurations to connect to a database, the
properties for the connection are pre-filled so that the process of
creating a connection is greatly simplified.
Exporting and loading database
connections from a database descriptor file
You can use the workbench to export the information from multiple
database connections in the Data Source Explorer to
an XML file. You can use this XML to load or populate the Data
Source Explorer with these connections in a new workspace.
This file can be shared among team members. This simplifies the process
of multiple team members connecting to multiple data sources.