Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderAn unfortunate name, given that MS has had a language called U-SQL released for their data lake platform for a number of years now. The title of this post made me think they were bringing the functionalities to their SQL Database at a quick glance. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-lake-analytics/u...
I was really hoping for \dt but looks like they haven't implemented it yet. The number one most common thing I look up when I'm using a SQL variant is how to show the tables. I suppose there would be complications with NoSQL but you could just show available collections or whatever else it maps to in that case.
119K 2024-07-12 02:01 /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl 737K 2024-07-15 01:01 /usr/local/bin/pg_dump 528K 2024-07-15 01:09 /usr/local/bin/pg_restore 8.1M 2024-07-12 02:01 /usr/local/bin/postgres 848K 2024-07-12 02:01 /usr/local/bin/psql /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped /usr/local/bin/pg_dump: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), static-pie linked, stripped /usr/local/bin/pg_restore: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 348
- Total comments
- 79
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-14 | Usql – Universal command-line interface for SQL databasesFirst breakout · Best thread | pjf | 160 | 51 |
| 2019-11-11 | Usql – A Universal CLI for Databases | nexuist | 147 | 26 |
| 2022-12-30 | Usql – Universal command-line interface for SQL databases | thunderbong | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-11-17 | Usql: Universal command-line interface for SQL databasesLatest 20+ point return | thunderbong | 39 | 2 |
