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The amazing but criminally under-appreciated 'lnav' (https://lnav.org) facilitates exactly this approach. SQLite under the hood.

Oh, I hope there is a Windows-compatible way to use this (i.e.: in a .NET dev environment), if not now, then in the future.

Would probably work under the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), in Win10, or via Docker for Windows.

I've done similar with node.js streams pretty easily.