Plugin for Visidata enabling SQL databases to be used as data sources.
Currently the plugin has been tested against Oracle and MySQL. The plugin can handle MS SQL Databases but the functionality has not been tested.
To connect to a target database, simply use a SQL ALchemy friendly connection URL as the first argument to vd
.
NOTE: SQLAlchemy has the ability to specify DB type as well as the python package/driver used for database communication by following the database type with a +
, i.e. oracle+cx_oracle://
. Visidata currently does not support this functionality due to the way it parses URLs.