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Jailer, a unique open-source database tool

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Re: Jailer, a unique open-source database tool

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Post by _xnmw »

The browsing-through-relationships features looks very, very, cool. One-click "see related rows" would save me a ton of time every day, as I use TablePlus, where I often find myself manually copying foreign keys as I switch between related tables. Anyone know of any other apps that do this, as this is Windows only?

Re: Jailer, a unique open-source database tool

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Post by dotdi »

_xnmw wrote: post #2

The browsing-through-relationships features looks very, very, cool. One-click "see related rows" would save me a ton of time every day, as I use TablePlus, where I often find myself manually copying foreign keys as I switch between related tables. Anyone know of any other apps that do this, as this is Windows only?

This has a Linux build too. The releases contain a .deb file.

Re: Jailer, a unique open-source database tool

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Post by jailertool2 »

_xnmw wrote: post #2

The browsing-through-relationships features looks very, very, cool. One-click "see related rows" would save me a ton of time every day, as I use TablePlus, where I often find myself manually copying foreign keys as I switch between related tables. Anyone know of any other apps that do this, as this is Windows only?

I'm glad you like it. It is not only available for Windows, but also for macOS/linux and others. (It is a Java application)

Re: Jailer, a unique open-source database tool

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Post by treyfitty »

Looking Beyond the shitty title that doesn’t tell you why it’s “unique” until you click the link (and it is not unique anyway), I can’t imagine this tool will provide consistent value for a user. Sure, every now and then, you’ll want to trace back relationships strictly defined by a user at some point… but what meaningful business use cases are there?

Re: Jailer, a unique open-source database tool

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Post by jailertool2 »

treyfitty wrote: post #6

Looking Beyond the shitty title that doesn’t tell you why it’s “unique” until you click the link (and it is not unique anyway), I can’t imagine this tool will provide consistent value for a user. Sure, every now and then, you’ll want to trace back relationships strictly defined by a user at some point… but what meaningful business use cases are there?

The tool is aimed more at developers/quality assurance specialists. So people who have a more technical view of the data. It is therefore not much about business cases.

Furthermore, the relationships do not have to be defined manually either. Rather, they are automatically recognized based on the database metadata. (However, manual entry is also possible).

Re: Jailer, a unique open-source database tool

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Post by jailertool2 »

treyfitty wrote: post #6

Looking Beyond the shitty title that doesn’t tell you why it’s “unique” until you click the link (and it is not unique anyway), I can’t imagine this tool will provide consistent value for a user. Sure, every now and then, you’ll want to trace back relationships strictly defined by a user at some point… but what meaningful business use cases are there?

Moreover, it is not just a "tool", but "tools". In addition to the data browser that you are talking about here, there is also the "subsetter" (for extracting consistent subsets of a database). And for sure this tool is unique.

Re: Jailer, a unique open-source database tool

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Post by viraptor »

treyfitty wrote: post #6

Looking Beyond the shitty title that doesn’t tell you why it’s “unique” until you click the link (and it is not unique anyway), I can’t imagine this tool will provide consistent value for a user. Sure, every now and then, you’ll want to trace back relationships strictly defined by a user at some point… but what meaningful business use cases are there?

The use cases are right there in the first section. You're being a dick to the authors just because you don't understand why this is useful. Please take a moment and chill.
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