Interactive-sql Extension For Quarto

Run sql queries interactively from Quarto html document.

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Installing

quarto add shafayetShafee/interactive-sql

This will install the extension under the _extensions subdirectory. If you're using version control, you will want to check in this directory.

Note: It is recommended to use latest quarto version for using this extension.

Using

At first use the filter interactive-sql in the document yaml,

---
filters:
  - interactive-sql

Then list the binary SQLite file or SQL script under the databases yaml key, where you are required to provide a name of the database which will be used later to create interactive sql code chunk and a path to the SQL script or SQLite binary file that must be served from a server.

And then create non executable sql code chunk using {.sql} along with two classes. One is .interactive and another will be the name of the databases, .<database-name> for which you want to queries in this code chunk.

So for example, you have added a SQL script containing code for creating a SQLite database with the name hr. Then When you create the code chunk use the class .hr so that the queries are executed for this database.

---
filters:
  - interactive-sql
databases:
  - name: hr
    path: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shafayetShafee/interactive-sql/main/hr.sql"
---


```{.sql .interactive .hr}
select * from regions;
```

editable option

Use this option in the yaml under the databases key to make the code chunk associated with that databases un-editable.

Using multiple databases

You can use multiple databases too. Just list them under the databases key. See the example file to check how to.

Example

Here is the source code for,

• a minimal example for html format: example.qmd.

• a minimal example for revealjs format: example-revelajs.qmd and the rendered presentation

Limitation

One obvious limitation is that, if you use the embed-resources option, sql code will not run.

Acknowledgement

This extension is simply a wrapper around the amazing sqlime. So thanks to the sqlime project and the maintainer Anton Zhiyanov.