[GENERAL] Query Designer

2005-04-27 Thread Carlos Gustavo fischer
Hello, people. I´m looking for a FREE tool where you can VISUALLY link tables and mark fields and the tool generates the query automatically. I´ve tried PGExplorer. It´s nice, but it doens´t create "JOINS", just a lot of WHERE... =...AND...=...AND... Do you people have any tips ?? Thanks in adv

Re: [GENERAL] Query Designer

2005-04-27 Thread Sean Davis
Particularly if you have a set of queries that are used often, you could certainly build a framework for doing this. See: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables as an example. There are many others, I would imagine. Perl, ruby, and probably Java and python offer database abstraction tools th

Re: [GENERAL] Query Designer

2005-04-27 Thread Hannes Dorbath
The SQL generated by tools like that is mostly neither performant nor readable in particular. Better learn basic SQL and use an editor with keyboard templates. That way you'll be writing your statements even faster than cicking arround in some stupid GUI ;) And yes, PGExplorer is the only FREE

[GENERAL] Query Designer

2005-04-26 Thread Carlos Gustavo Fischer
Hello, people. I´m looking for a FREE tool where you can VISUALLY link tables and mark fields and the tool generates the query automatically. I´ve tried PGExplorer. It´s nice, but it doens´t create "JOINS", just a lot of WHERE... =...AND...=...AND... Do you people have any tips ?? Thanks in adv