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Re: Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor

#21
The messaging is quite confusing. The title makes it seem like it took you ten years to release a first version, but the website says it’s version 3.0 and claims it’s “the leading SQL Editor […]”¹. There is a GitHub repo² but the history is quite unhelpful, with a bunch of commits named the same and some older commits after newer ones.

¹ Unless it were the only one, it would be impossible to be leading right after launch.

² https://github.com/timeseries/qstudio

Re: Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor

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post #21

The messaging is quite confusing. The title makes it seem like it took you ten years to release a first version, but the website says it’s version 3.0 and claims it’s “the leading SQL Editor […]”¹. There is a GitHub repo² but the history is quite unhelpful, with a bunch of commits named the same and some older commits after newer ones. ¹ Unless it were the only one, it would be impossible to be leading right after la…

It leads in having the most number of contributors named Ryan Hamilton.

Re: Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor

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Hi - I am trying to run this on an Intel Mac. I got it to launch once, and attempted to open a small (~30mb) sqlite DB, and got a crash. It now hangs/freezes as soon as the application opens (taking over > a full core of CPU e.g. 120% plus utilization in Activity Monitor), even after deleting and re-downloading the .jar file. Any ideas? Would love to check this out! edit: Apple silicon, which I note because the proce…

Ah! I figured it out. User error. I had hit "open file" instead of "open database" and the application decided to open the 30mb sqlite DB as text (e.g. a sql query), including syntax highlighting. Simply letting it grind away for 10 minutes or so allowed it actually open the file, at which point I could close the tab and performance is back to normal. Look forward to experimenting!

Hey, that's some amazing QA work. If I were the developer, I'd add a quick check to see if the file appears to be a SQLite database and do something useful in that case.
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