I don't get it. What makes this better than simply giving out read-only users and using a local GUI like pgadmin?
Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data
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Re: Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data
#12I don't get it. What makes this better than simply giving out read-only users and using a local GUI like pgadmin?
I have the exact same feeling and question. The copy "Get data yourself. No need to bug engineers anymore." confuses me further. Surely someone who can write SQL queries can setup PgCommander or something similar?
Re: Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data
#13I thought that'd be an abstraction layer so people who are not that familiar with SQL but need some basic information can easily get it but this doesn't seem any different than just giving someone access to a view with a regular GUI client or http://pgcli.com/.
Re: Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data
#14We use redash. This allows forking of queries, charting, and some light dashboarding. Also it supports full text searching of queries and descriptions. It's also stand alone and easy to launch on ec2.
Re: Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data
#15How did you guys drop down to a read-only connection on Heroku Postgres? We directly connect DB clients like PGAdmin to a reporting DB on Heroku, but Heroku only seems to support credentials with full access. I don't want an analyst to "DROP TABLES" by mistake.
Re: Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data
#16The video on the landing page does not play. 'Video format or MIME type is not supported' on firefox 37.0.2 win 7 x64
Ditto that on Firefox, OS X
Re: Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data
#17I can't see the video, and without that the landing page doesn't tell me anything. How is this different from periscope.io?
Re: Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data
#18The video on the landing page does not play. 'Video format or MIME type is not supported' on firefox 37.0.2 win 7 x64
I experienced the same problem here (37.0.2, Linux). I also think a few screenshots would be nice; I rarely click on a video when commuting, especially if I don't have my earphones. With that said I think this is a fantastic product idea.
Strange, I have the same Firefox on a Ubuntu 12.04 and the video plays. Did they fix it in the last 3 hours or did I install some uncommon codec?
This is the direct URL to the video https://d3j28ekqdam5rw.cloudfront.net/assets/slinky_demo-4c0...
Re: Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data
#19We use redash. This allows forking of queries, charting, and some light dashboarding. Also it supports full text searching of queries and descriptions. It's also stand alone and easy to launch on ec2. https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash
This looks great! I have a number of adhoc queries I keep kicking around. Some of which them are timeseries based and I've taken the time to pump those into graphite, but others are just interesting to see in their own right sometimes.
Thanks for sharing.
Re: Slinky – An easy way to query your PostgreSQL data
#20We use redash. This allows forking of queries, charting, and some light dashboarding. Also it supports full text searching of queries and descriptions. It's also stand alone and easy to launch on ec2. https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash
That looks great! I very much prefer the canonical SQL for querying data in a visual way, rather than a "generic" custom querying language. Does it send the query directly to the db? Is there any transformation? Does it mean it only works with sql databases?