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# datadive
Data viz extension for SQL Server Management Studio
# DataDive 💦
Data viz extension for SQL Server Management Studio.

# Status [hacks 💬]
This add-in was [hacked together](https://twitter.com/Latish/status/1326288025110908929) in a few evenings. It is very ugly written, with a ton of extensibility "hacks" still left around in the code. Run at your own risk!

# Facets Dive from Google PAIR
[Facets Dive](https://pair-code.github.io/facets/) is a super cool and useful tool for interactively exploring large amounts of data.

See more [on YouTube](https://youtu.be/WVclIFyCCOo?t=153)

## SSMS add-in
I've used Facets many times and I find it very useful to help me understand the data I'm query from a SQL database, inside of management studio. The results table doesn't give you a very good idea, if any, about how lots of rows are distributed per column, if you have a lot of NULL values or how the relationship between columns are.

It is easy enough to export a result set as CSV, go to the Facets page and load it. But it would be much nice to have inside of management studio.

Which is what you can do with this add-in — you simply query your data as you always do, and then click `View in Facets" from the Tools menu and your result set is automatically displayed:

![img](preview.jpg)

# Installation
Download the latest `DataDive.exe` from the [releases](https://github.com/martinnormark/DataDive/releases).

This is a self-extracting archive. Extract it to `C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18\Common7\IDE\Extensions` - the archive contains the `DataDive` folder.

It should look like this after correct installation:
![installed](installed.png)
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