Nice product! I'm also not a big fan of DBeaver, Beekeeper, or Adminer. However, I do use HeidiSQL, and it's been lightweight and robust for me over the last 20 years. One feature I really appreciate is the query history, which is categorized by date. Have you ever given it a try?
Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL
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#22Nice product! I'm also not a big fan of DBeaver, Beekeeper, or Adminer. However, I do use HeidiSQL, and it's been lightweight and robust for me over the last 20 years. One feature I really appreciate is the query history, which is categorized by date. Have you ever given it a try?
getgalaxy.io ;)
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#23Unsolicited feedback (or I guess solicited reading the post again): Juypter Notebook experience got me to click because I thought this might be like a Deepnote alternative
But the only screenshot on the Github page was decidedly not that. It wasn't showing something very appealing visually, or immediately obvious in terms of necessity for a tool calling its competitors ugly and bloated
I don't use any of the ones you listed so maybe they're even uglier, but I would maybe tweak the pitch and make it clearer who this is for
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#24> 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
Sure it's a complex, difficult feature. But that's what "time travel" typically means in terms of querying databases. It's the headline of this article, the fact that what they really mean is a simple query log, is kind of bait-and-switch.
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#25Cool 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
amen. get the schema correct and the gui will follow.
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#26You might want to make the sample db read only.