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 This repository contains a standards-compliant JDBC driver for Polypheny-DB.
 
+- Load the driver `org.polypheny.jdbc.Driver`, for example via 
+  ```
+  Class.forName( "org.polypheny.jdbc.Driver" );
+  ```
+- Use the connection URL `jdbc:polypheny://localhost/` to connect to [Polypheny-DB](https://github.com/polypheny/Polypheny-DB).
 
 ## Roadmap ##
 See the [open issues](https://github.com/polypheny/Polypheny-JDBC-Driver/issues) for a list of proposed features (and known issues).
@@ -18,4 +23,4 @@ This JDBC Driver is based on [Apache Avatica](https://calcite.apache.org/avatica
 
 
 ## License ##
-The Apache 2.0 License
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+The Apache 2.0 License