Re: WISH: SQL on org-mode tables

["Johan W. Klüwer" <johan.w.kluwer@gmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1647 bytes --]

I started using EDBI myself just last week, it's working really well so far!

An EDBI--org combination would be amazing for database work.


2013/8/21 SAKURAI Masashi <m.sakurai@kiwanami.net>

> Hi,
>
> I wrote a full DB browser in Emacs, EDBI
> https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-edbi.
>
> This program provides DB Query API (like Perl's DBI) and table layout
> framework.
> One can query any SQL and layout the results into a rigid table format.
> There is no document for API, please see the demo code.
> https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-edbi/blob/master/edbi-demo.el
>
> I don't have a time to integrate it into org-mode,
> if someone would write the code, I think I can help a little.
>
>
> Regards
> --
> SAKURAI, Masashi (family, given)
> m.sakurai@kiwanami.net
>
>
> At Sun, 18 Aug 2013 16:06:43 +0200,
> Johan W. Kl�+dwer wrote:
> >
> > [1  <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>]
> >
> > [2  <text/html; ISO-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>]
> > I wish it were possible to execute SQL on tables in org-mode buffers.
> Filtering rows and columns,
> > joining values across named tables, and so forth could be done with SQL
> in the org-table SEND
> > clauses.
> >
> > There's a script called csvsql that allows for executing SQL on comma-
> or tab-separated files from
> > the command-line (using the H2 database engine):
> https://github.com/jdurbin/durbinlib/wiki/csvsql.
> > I'm thinking csvsql or similar could provide the query capability, and
> org-mode would take care of
> > sending it org tables in tab separated format.
> >
> > That's my wish.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Johan
> >
> >
>

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2462 bytes --]