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It's not a competition where one solution has to beat the other. Querying through a textual language and through a visual interface complement each other. I co
by bmn__ 7y ago
It's not a competition where one solution has to beat the other. Querying through a textual language and through a visual interface complement each other.
I consider a product to be a success when it combines the best features of both and makes them available to the user so that he may organise his work flow according to the own preferred style.
- larodi 7y agoThat is true, you are right. What I'm saying is that eventually things that need be SQL are either SQL... or sometimes R. The language is more expressive and it takes less time to 'select something from something where conditions group by something', rather than drag and drop it. and is the reason why SQL is so fundamental to all areas of information technology and particularly when data is involved. besides, SQL is DATALOG which is PROLOG which is to 'program logic', which gets as close as it can to 'wiring' logic. many attempts to visualize this process has failed so far, because... they are more complex and more specific. SQL takes like 30 chars and dozen keywords to master. any visual paradigm - takes more.