SQL ICE - New Tool for Drupal Users who know MySql
Posted by lfolta on January 12, 2011 at 7:15pm
Business Integration Technology has just released SQL ICE, the Internet Computing Environment for SQL Experts. Although SQL ICE can do a lot of things, one that may be of interest to Drupal Users is the ability to connect to your Drupal database and write MySQL queries to get reports that can be displayed, downloaded, and shared with other users.
All you need to do is add a Connection to the target database and write a query in SQL. The data is exposed as an XML document accessed by a REST Web service. For example, a simple query like:
Select