[eastbound]

Many people have tried launching an Excel-with-SQL-querying product, but it’s extremely hard to do the UI well. Also products where people write SQL are impossible to insure.

[_dain_]

>an Excel-with-SQL-querying product

This is basically what Powerquery is, and it's been built into Excel for years. And it does other things too.

[airstrike]

yeah, but it's really not ergonomic relative to the default Excel-with-formulas experience