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24 alternatives to I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

Stop treating the database as dumb storage and use its extended features. There's a lot you can use.

A free eBook covering lesser-known database techniques and tricks for developers. Published in December 2022 and available at sqlfordevs.com, the resource provides practical SQL knowledge beyond common practices. It… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Learn secret SQL features to become a database wizard

    2022 · sqlfordevs.com · its alternatives →

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    https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming-in-j... This book is a distillation of everything I’ve learned about what effective development looks like in Java (so far!). It's about how to organize programs around data "as plain data" and the surprisingly benefits that emerge when we do. Programs that are built around the data they manage tend to be simpler, smaller, and significantly easier understand. Java has changed radically over the last several years. It has picked up all kinds of new language features which support data oriented programming (records,…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Entertaining way to learn SQL

    2015 · alexpineda.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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    Write SQL without knowing SQL

    2023 · supabase.com · its alternatives →

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    I have spent large parts of the last 10+ years building an SQL Editor. The tool is targeted at data analysts, a lot of effort has gone into charting, visualizing and excel export. If this sounds useful to you, it's Free, please give it a try and let me know any feedback.

    2024 · timestored.com · its alternatives →

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    The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…

    Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →

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    AI2sql▲240

    Write SQL queries with no knowledge of SQL

    2021 · app.ai2sql.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, we're Eric and Dean, creators of SchemafreeSQL. Its roots go back to an on-line Web App Development Environment we developed back in 1999. It was comprised of an IDE, Web Server, Object Store, Virtual File System, Template System, and polyglot (Java, JavaScript, and Python). Of course, we named it “.OS”. Then we ended up dropping it. But that's a story for another time. It was the ease of use of the Object Store from .OS that we really missed, which brings us back to SchemafreeSQL. It provides an enhanced API to your SQL Database which allows it to function as a Schemaless…

    2022 · schemafreesql.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi folks. I've been doing some experiments on how LLMs could get more handy in the day to day of working with files (CSV, Parquet, etc). Earlier last year, I built https://datakit.page and evolved it over and over into an all in-browser experience with help of duckdb-wasm. Got loads of feedbacks and I think it turned into a good shape with being an adhoc local data studio, but I kept hearing two main things/issues: Why can't the AI also change cells in the file we give to it? Why can't we modify this grid ourselves? So besides the whole READ and text-to-SQL flows, what seemed…

    Feb 2026 · opensheet.app · its alternatives →

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    LBADD: An experimental, distributed SQL database. Contribute to tomarrell/lbadd development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    DBngin▲133

    Free all-in-one database version management tool 🛠️

    2018 · dbngin.com · its alternatives →

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    The easiest way to learn SQL

    2015 · sqlteaching.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been exploring the (not so=) amazing potential of AI in coding and have compiled a list of tools. From AI-powered IDEs to code generators, this resource is my contribution to the community. I'm still on the fence about including txt2sql projects, as their functionality seems too basic to me. And I'm personally maintaining this, so your feedback is wellcome.

    2025 · aicode.danvoronov.com · its alternatives →

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    Create customizable online database applications for your business using drag-and-drop forms. Sign up for free today.

    2015 · sonadier.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi all, I like RethinkDB a lot. One year ago, I started to document it because I want to learn more about it. At first, I blog, at one point I started to writing it in markdown, using pandoc to convert it into PDF then I switched to Leanpub. At some point, I almost abandon it. But finally I make effort to go back and almost finish it. Here is the result of one year: http://leanpub.com/simplyrethinkdb I also open source it on here(But it helps if you make an purchase on leanpub anyway :D): http://github.com/kureikain/simplyrethink The book is still WIP…

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    A friend and I wrote a book on how to build and train Deep Learning models in Go. We wanted it to be a useful reference for deep learning basics for Go programmers. Deep Learning is slowly seeping into everything we use every day and we thought it would be great if more people could do it in Go. The book is available here and on Amazon as well. https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/hands-deep-learning-go We would appreciate any feedback and we're always looking to improve.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    DBee▲7

    Explore databases easily: AI driven query generation for all

    2024 · dbee.alepacheco.dev · its alternatives →

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    So a while ago I was thinking it would be neat to build a site that had the most absolute utility. The idea I came up with was a site to store those little protips that are super useful, if you know them ahead of time. I hired a guy to work on it with me, and ClueDB was born: http://cluedb.com/ Please give it a whirl (it uses Twitter auth as login but doesn't tweet anything) and tell me what you think! (Various trivia: My first try at a project coded by someone else and "product managed" by me. Runs on Flask + MongoDB. Also, this is totally unrelated to my startup.)

    2011 · cluedb.com · its alternatives →

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    A repository that contains models, datasets, and fine-tuning techniques for DB-GPT, with the purpose of enhancing model performance in Text-to-SQL - eosphoros-ai/DB-GPT-Hub

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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