Show HN: QStudio – SQL Analysis Tool

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11 points·RyanHamilton··2 comments

Free tool for querying, charting and visualizing data from SQL. I personally have been working on it for 10+ years :)

After 10+ years mostly read-only, I thought I should post a Show HN, I guess that counts as failing badly at marketing. This tool is very specifically for querying data. It provides fast intuitive charting and allows easy export to excel etc. It has almost no DBA administrative functionality as our users are focussed on analysing data, often they are analysing data someone else is creating or storing.

I initially created this tool when I was using a niche database that no existing tools supported. In the early years, I gave it to friends and co-workers then added functionality they asked for. In the last few years, I have been using more standard SQL databases so I added support for postgreSQL/MySQL/Oeacle/MS and many other databases. "Fun fact", outside the big 7 databases I've found flaws in half the JDBC drivers.

As well as more database support, I made it free so that more people could use it. I would love to hear your feedback. Perhaps be a little gentle as it's been 10 years, so it's like having your child insulted :)

I like how it supports so many different databases. however it might be more adoption if it was a web-app and had a more modern ui. very cool though.

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