I've created an Excel plugin for using SQL inside Excel

So as a side project I developed a plugin that lets you do SQL inside Excel. It's called ThingieQuery (www.thingiequery.com).

When you install it, you get a SQL IDE window inside Excel. It uses an embedded SQLite engine to process the queries and uses the data from excel tables. Basically you get full SQL support inside excel.

In case you want to query your excel tables together with the tables on an external db server you can do that as well. In this case the data from Excel tables will be copied in the form of temp tables to the external server. If you wish, you can write the results of your queries back to Excel.

It has syntax highlighting, code completion (currently rudimentary tho), and can do some neat tricks which I won't go into here.

I've also made two tutorials so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld-mbyAGsow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vjlEd2-bJQ

I created the licensing infrastructure and the website, and am trying to launch it as a product and I'd really appreciate any feedback.

If you do a lot of data manipulation in Excel and you're good with SQL do give it a try.

Thanks! Antonio

You can post it on this section or ask the mods to transfer it.
http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-cooler/

I think this is great, I've watched your videos and I'm going to download the trial

Hey, that's great to hear! I hope you find it useful, and please feel free to let me know what you think.

Well, you don't have to be an expert, even with basic SQL knowledge, you can do lots of stuff you couldn't do (easily) with Excel alone (joins, more powerfull filtering/grouping/sorting, selective updating and deleting and a lot more). Not to mention the fact that SQL is scriptable so you can repeat operations easily, and share them with others.

And what do you mean the music sucks?! I really liked the first one Well, TBH you're probably right, it sounded better than my voice alone, so I left it in.

Congrats on getting this on the front page of HN mate along with the great reception, noticed a while ago, nice work how you getting along with it?

Hi Kyle, thanks, I was quite happy about that! I originally posted on reddit a few days ago, and then someone from there posted in on HN, I owe the man a beer Both threads were very popular, and my website viewership jumped from 100/day to 10k/day! Just for a day or two, but still, an amazing few days. Anyway, I'm having fun with it, sold several licenses and am getting good feedback. My only problem is that marketing-wise I have no idea what I'm doing and I should probably hire someone who does How about you, find any cool open source stuff to work on lately?