The SQL demo has been on my “todo” list for months. It’s really hard to create a compelling demo for something
as boring (by design) as SQL so this was a big procrastination target. After we built the SQL explorer tool for the developer
guide it became apparent to me that this could be the basis for the new SQL demo, just provide the ability to
type in arbitrary SQL and see it work…​

However, this doesn’t provide enough as beginners might not grasp the full scope of the capabilities, so to make
this interesting we added a special tutorial mode that just shows you the queries you can execute. I initially wanted
to do something more elaborate like a walkthru tutorial but time constraints blocked that option.

You’ll notice that I’m not embedding the JavaScript version of the demo into this post although you can see it from
the demo page. The reason for that is unique.

Browsers don’t support SQL, there was an attempt at getting a standard out but it didn’t last and all vendors
deprecated their respective SQL support although some still kept it (notably Chrome & Safari). So the demo
works well on Chrome & Safari but not on Firefox (no idea about IE/Edge). There are also a couple of bugs in the
SQL support in the JavaScript port making the situation slightly worse.

One of the things we were able to achieve is to make the demo submittable to app stores and as a result it’s
already on
Google Play,
Microsoft Store and on
itunes.

Check out the full source code in the github repository for the project.