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I don't mind the plug at all. I know Metabase supports raw queries, but we're going from normalised schemas to 'flattened' denormalised ones to help the reporting effort.

At the same time, I don't expect the whole organisation to know SQL while I do expect them to make a slight effort to use Metabase's 'Question' interface (if they want data out).

I'll be sure to take a look at Redash

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Well done on Redash - It looks and feel very nice. I'll definitely keep an eye on it, but Metabase's 'Questions' and visualisations are a bit more polished for now.

I guess that's the kind of polish VC money buys :-) I went the bootstrap/community route. But I hope that in about two months we will have funds to hire a UI/UX designer to improve the user experience and general look and feel.

> I guess that's the kind of polish VC money buys :-)

quite possibly. I've also read some of their bug threads and they're quite discerning (protective?) of what makes it in from the community. so, money+perfectionism, perhaps.

but honestly - their 'questions' interface is a hell of a lot more fun than sql. thanks to ORMs, my sql knowledge is really quite rusty as well and the simple/constrained "select, filter, aggregate" options on a single table or data source lets me faceroll what I need.

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