Raw Query is a free online database tool which lets you retrieve data from a database using natural language. It is basically an AI based database query tool. It offers you a chat like interface where you can type a query in text and then it will understand it and will return the matching data. With the help of this tool, you can actually talk to your database for free.
For now, Raw Query supports MySQL and PostgreSQL as DB systems to query data. There is an example database that it comes with. But you can always add your own database if you want to. Just configure a database with the server and user and credentials and then start asking questions in the chat. If the result is tabular then you can export that in CSV format as well.
Free Database Query tool to retrieve data via natural language chat
In order to get started with it, you will first have to create a free account on its main website. After that, you can proceed with the database configuration.
As I mentioned earlier already that there is an example database. You can check that out. Or, you can add your own database to query as well. Click on the “+” sign and then enter the database connection details right there.
Now, finally, you can start querying the data. Just type something related to the tables in the database. It will take some time and then will show you the results. If you don’t know what is the structure of the database, you can just click on database icon to see the schema view.
Similarly, you can ask something a little complex that returns a tabular data. It will analyze the command and will generate the result. Furthermore, you can export the result in CSV format as well. You can see this in the screenshot below.
In this way, you can make use of this simple and powerful database query tool to retrieve data via natural language chat. Just enter in natural language chat what you want to extract. It will understand the context and will generate a SQL statement internally and will run it against the currently active database. This is a simple as that.
Final thoughts:
If you like to try something different in the word of database system then Raw Query tool is a good option. As AI and machine learning advancing, we will get to see more tools like this. This one here works as it was supposed to and I liked the output that it generates. You can play with it for a little while by using your own databases and then see how that works out for you.
