You can directly connect and interact with your Spanner database using the Spanner CLI, an interactive shell for Spanner that is built into the Google Cloud CLI

## Feature You can directly connect and interact with your Spanner database using the Spanner CLI, an interactive shell for Spanner that is built into the Google Cloud CLI. You can use the Spanner CLI to start an interactive session and automate SQL executions from the shell or an input file. This feature is available in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages). For more information, see [Spanner CLI quickstart](https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/spanner-cli).