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Re:NocoDB – Turn your SQL database into a Nocode platform by thunderbong on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:55PM (#29179743)
From the other comments, I haven't tried tooljet (https://tooljet.io) or budibase (https://budibase.com) but I did have a look at those apps.

This, for me, was easiest to try out. And quite impressive, honestly.

The key point was that in each table, the 'title' column (created by default) has a special meaning as they show up in the join columns cleanly.

Amazing and congratulations.

Re:NocoDB – Turn your SQL database into a Nocode platform by waxdotrun on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:32PM (#29180300)
This has been my experience with internal tool builders too. The barrier to entry is quite high to try most of them and it's really hard to have a whole team test them out.

This adoption issue was part of the inspiration for Wax [0] which lets you build internal tools on top of Google Sheets. If your team is already using Sheets, it's much easier to add the missing pieces there vs. pushing people to an entirely separate platform.

0 - https://www.wax.run/

Re:NocoDB – Turn your SQL database into a Nocode platform by rnavi on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:08PM (#29179953)
Thank you.

In noco we've the concept of primary-value (like primary key) and that shows up automatically when you join with other tables (defaults to 'title'). However the primary value column can be changed to any other column too (by hovering on the column name).

Other tools in the list do not give the smart-spreadsheet automatically when you connect to databases. And frankly, these are two different tools we are comparing.

Re:NocoDB – Turn your SQL database into a Nocode platform by thunderbong on Saturday November 20, 2021 @12:51PM (#29290225)
Oh, ok! Thanks for letting me know. Will surely try it out!