document updated 14 years ago, on Jan 4, 2010
I'd like to find a better query tool than we currently have. (Benthic Golden) The reasons I want more flexible querying are listed below.
The general goal of this tool is to be able to explore things. It's intended to be used during the "I don't know exactly what I want, just let me surf" phase of work, rather than the "I know exactly what I want, just let me get my task done as quickly as possible" phase.
- We have 291 tables in our database. Trying to keep them all straight in your head is really hard.
- Our database has large amounts of protected health information. Especially during the initial exploration phase, usually you want to keep any such information hidden unless you specifically need to see it.