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Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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post #4

1. The tools are always web based and have a bloated and bad experience as opposed to a complete native app. 2. Charts, easy ability to find the database if there are so many

I don't see much difference between a native app and web app, in the end is what the developer decided to do with that.

See autocad for web for example, is kinda the same. Or Photopea, photoshop's clone.

Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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> query history and replay

For clarification- am I correct that what you are referring to as "time travel" is simply a history list of prior queries you've run? Can I today, run a query and see what the results would have been in the database last month (or yesterday, or 2 hours ago, etc)?

Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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> query history and replay For clarification- am I correct that what you are referring to as "time travel" is simply a history list of prior queries you've run? Can I today, run a query and see what the results would have been in the database last month (or yesterday, or 2 hours ago, etc)?

I also understood that, but seems unreasonable to be able to achieve it without somehow storing the state via scd or some sort of audit + multi engine support

Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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When talking about Time Travel in regards to a database, that term usually means "seeing what the data looked like at a specific time". From my brief skim here, I don't see that.

Is that concept built in somewhere?

Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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post #9

how did you manage to put - no bloat - built-in AI co-pilot with ollama (local) or openai/anthropic into one list?

Pretty easily, as it happens[0]. Just implement the RESTful methods as appropriate. Ollama supports the OpenAI API spec

[0]: https://github.com/clidey/whodb/blob/main/core/src/llm/llm_c...

[1]: https://github.com/openai/openai-openapi

Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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"Conversate With Your Data: No more wasting time crafting complex SQL queries - ask away!"

Maybe it is just me but literally every single product that has tried to eliminate SQL somehow with a conversational interface has never seen mass success, if they did, we wouldn't be using SQL anymore

Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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"Conversate With Your Data: No more wasting time crafting complex SQL queries - ask away!" Maybe it is just me but literally every single product that has tried to eliminate SQL somehow with a conversational interface has never seen mass success, if they did, we wouldn't be using SQL anymore

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Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

#20

Cool product. > No more wasting time crafting complex SQL queries I always wondered about this sentiment; isn't the time spent crafting complex queries a good thing when trying to understand a problem domain? I.e. incrementally refining your mental model of the data model

Some complexity is accidental (how do I do this gnarly window function and get the 3rd highest value from the previous week this time last year except on the first week of the quarter), and some is essential (why is the data like this?).

People confuse the two, and rightfully dislike the former while dangerously resenting the latter.

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