What about DB Browser as alternate tool? http://sqlitebrowser.org/ 
<http://sqlitebrowser.org/>

I have is
-mjl


> On Nov 15, at 8:53 AM, Amy E. Hodge <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mario,
>  
> For those already familiar with the command line, I think the method you 
> describe could work well. However, many of the people who come to the SQL 
> stand-alone workshops I teach based on our ecology lesson have never used the 
> command line, and I think the overhead here would just be too much for them 
> to learn both things simultaneously. If you are used to a GUI for everything, 
> the Firefox extension has a much lower barrier to entry.
>  
> Even some who are familiar with the command line I think benefit from initial 
> instruction in the GUI before shifting over.
>  
> And nearly everything requires new software installations, and installing 
> Firefox is one of the easier things we ask people to install.
>  
> ~ Amy
>  
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> From: Mario Antonioletti <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Reply-To: Mario Antonioletti <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 1:14 AM
> To: François Michonneau <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Cc: "Amy E. Hodge" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>, 
> "[email protected] 
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> Subject: Re: [Discuss] FW: Welcome to the new Firefox
>  
>  
> Hi,
>     I have previously taught the SQL lesson successfully, I thought, by
> just using the command line. I feel there is an incongruity here - why
> should SQL get special treatment when we are so purist about git?
> there are lots of good git clients out there but we insist that
> people do it on the command line yet for SQL it is different?
>  
> The reason why I went with the command line was the fact that lots of
> people use ie (now edge) or chrome - why should we expect people to
> install firefox if they want to learn SQL? Using the command line is
> also more consistent with the other lessons: bash, git, ...
>  
> Mario
>  
>  
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, François Michonneau wrote:
>  
>> Hi Amy,
>>   That's a good point. It's going to be interesting to monitor what's going 
>> to happen in the next
>> few weeks. It looks like many addons (including some very popular commercial 
>> ones) are incompatible
>> with this new version of firefox. I assume that the developers of these 
>> addons are going to catch
>> up and make them compatible. However, it's not clear if it's also going to 
>> be the case for SQLite
>> manager and this thread doesn't seem too
>> promising: https://github.com/lazierthanthou/sqlite-manager/issues/75 
>> <https://github.com/lazierthanthou/sqlite-manager/issues/75>
>>  
>>   It might be a good idea to explore alternatives. I saw that plotly 
>> recently released a
>> cross-platform database interface named Falcon: 
>> https://plot.ly/database-connectors/ <https://plot.ly/database-connectors/> 
>> (Linux version
>> available from: https://github.com/plotly/falcon-sql-client/releases/latest 
>> <https://github.com/plotly/falcon-sql-client/releases/latest>). sqlitebrowser
>> (https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser 
>> <https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser>) is actively maintained and 
>> also cross-platform.
>>  
>>   cheers,
>>   -- François
>> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Amy E. Hodge <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>  
>>        I just downloaded the new Firefox Quantum and discovered that SQLite 
>> Manager no longer
>>        works – it’s automatically disabled and only gives me the option to 
>> Remove it.
>>  
>>  
>>        Hopefully the older version we still be available for a while, but we 
>> may need to make
>>        a note in the lesson materials about the version people need to use 
>> for the SQL
>>        lessons. Right now I’m seeing that they haven’t made it easy to 
>> access downloads for
>>        older versions. I’m not finding it.
>>  
>>  
>>        ~ Amy
>>  
>>  
>>        Amy E. Hodge, PhD
>>        Science Data Librarian
>>  
>>        [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>  
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