You beat me to it <@U8A5MS6R1>... But just wanted ...
# thinking-togethers
stevekrouse
02/05/2019, 9:10 AM
You beat me to it @shalabh... But just wanted to say congrats to @jamii and Kevin Lynagh for Reltron, their new prototype to explore SQL. https://kevinlynagh.com/reltron/ It reminds me of Looker (where I used to work and now @ibdknox works) but has a fresh take on a few things such as nested join discoverability and incredibly fast live data loading
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Chris Knott
02/05/2019, 7:40 PMThe demo works beautifully and absolutely nails that "exploratory feel". I'm not exactly sure what causes it, but it has that same feeling as Excel that playing around is safe, which is why it is popular with non-programmers (in fact, it's actually possible to get yourself completely muddled in Excel and lose data, but it doesn't feel like it).
Chris Knott
02/05/2019, 7:45 PMThe only thing I would say is what I always feel about visual tools - that I wish it was also writing code underneath, that I could then go and edit. The search works great, but how do I search for long names, names with no 'e's etc.
I think there should always be the option to switch to "real" programming, it should just never be at the expense of the natural visual interface
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ibdknox
02/06/2019, 1:29 AMJosh and I actually left Looker and are now at Relational AI 🙂
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stevekrouse
02/06/2019, 9:19 AM
Oh wow!