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SQL Autocompletion and Introspection

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These features are the result of Xing-Zhi Jiang's work during Google Summer of Code 2021 and they are being fine-tuned and improved constantly to get a decent code completion and introspection experience in the MariaDB Jupyter Kernel.

Autocompletion

The MariaDB Jupyter kernel is able to provide SQL autocompletion with a basic internal understanding of the context within your statements. We are trying to make the suggestions as precise as possible, but any SQL autocompletion is imperfect unless you either duplicate the entire grammar logic of MariaDB Server or the MariaDB Server itself develops mechanisms for external tools to poke into its parsing logic.

Autocompletion in Jupyter can be triggered with the key TAB. In the classic Juptyter Notebook interface, it's possible to install some extensions to enable continuous hinting, but at the time this article is written there is no mechanism to enable continuous hinting in the new JupyterLab interface.

Here's a summary of our autocompletion capabilities, but we strongly recommend you play with the feature yourself and discover what it can do.

Introspection

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