SQL Lab

SQL Lab is a modern, feature-rich SQL IDE written in React.

Feature Overview

  • Connects to just about any database backend

  • A multi-tab environment to work on multiple queries at a time

  • A smooth flow to visualize your query results using Superset’s rich visualization capabilities

  • Browse database metadata: tables, columns, indexes, partitions

  • Support for long-running queries - uses the Celery distributed queue

    to dispatch query handling to workers

    • supports defining a “results backend” to persist query results

  • A search engine to find queries executed in the past

  • Supports templating using the Jinja templating language which allows for using macros in your SQL code

Extra features

  • Hit alt + enter as a keyboard shortcut to run your query

Templating with Jinja

SELECT *
FROM some_table
WHERE partition_key = '{{ presto.latest_partition('some_table') }}'

Templating unleashes the power and capabilities of a programming language within your SQL code.

Templates can also be used to write generic queries that are parameterized so they can be re-used easily.

Available macros

We expose certain modules from Python’s standard library in Superset’s Jinja context: - time: time - datetime: datetime.datetime - uuid: uuid - random: random - relativedelta: dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta - more to come!

Jinja’s builtin filters can be also be applied where needed.

class superset.jinja_context.PrestoTemplateProcessor(database=None, query=None, table=None)[source]

Presto Jinja context

The methods described here are namespaced under presto in the jinja context as in SELECT '{{ presto.some_macro_call() }}'

latest_partition(table_name)[source]

Returns the latest (max) partition value for a table

Parameters:table_name (str) – the name of the table, can be just the table name or a fully qualified table name as schema_name.table_name 
>>> latest_partition('foo_table')
'2018-01-01'
latest_sub_partition(table_name, **kwargs)[source]

Returns the latest (max) partition value for a table

A filtering criteria should be passed for all fields that are partitioned except for the field to be returned. For example, if a table is partitioned by (ds, event_type and event_category) and you want the latest ds, you’ll want to provide a filter as keyword arguments for both event_type and event_category as in ``latest_sub_partition(‘my_table’,

event_category=’page’, event_type=’click’)``
Parameters:
  • table_name (str) – the name of the table, can be just the table name or a fully qualified table name as schema_name.table_name
  • kwargs (str) – keyword arguments define the filtering criteria on the partition list. There can be many of these.
 
>>> latest_sub_partition('sub_partition_table', event_type='click')
'2018-01-01'