Many sites let you search databases of information, but the search queries are very limited.
I'm creating a site that'll allow arbitrary SQL queries to my data (I realize I'll need to handle injection attacks).
Are there other viable ways to query data? I read a little on "Business System 12" (BS12), Tutorial D, and even something called T-SQL (I think), but they all seem theoretical and not fully implemented.
I want a query language that non-techies can use easily, but also supports arbitrarily complex queries. Does such a language exist?
Originally I was using the webexone.com database to allow non-techies to create tables and views, however found it too limiting - the functional ceiling too low.
So our org. built a web-app for this based on postgres - a GUI. However it's not aimed at letting non-techies do everything, which is rather ambitious. People familiar with SQL and relational db concepts can do practically everything but non-techs can do simpler tasks. For example I recently used some of the new windowing functions (yay!) in a view but users typically add/remove fields, filters and aggregate calculations.
