The Power of Surreal Sidekick: Boosting Your SurrealDB Productivity
Hello! I’m Sidekick
Surreal Sidekick is a fully-fledged AI assistant housed within the Surreal Cloud panel in Surrealist, a graphical database management interface available as both a web and desktop app. To start using Sidekick, open the Surrealist web app or install Surrealist Desktop on your system.
Your Personal Assistant
Sidekick is continuously learning from all available SurrealDB resources, enabling it to respond to your questions with accurate and up-to-date information. This allows you to effortlessly learn about any topic in SurrealDB, including the query language, storage drivers, SDKs, and more. You can even communicate with Sidekick in your preferred language, making it easier to get the information you need.
Your Personal Writer
Sometimes, you’re not in the mood to write complex queries. You can ask Sidekick to generate queries for you instead. This is one of my personal favorite use-cases of Sidekick, and it’s a great example of how it can help boost your productivity. While Sidekick will always attempt to respond with a useful query, some generated queries may not always be what you were looking for. In these situations, you can simply ask Sidekick to revise a previous response or generate a completely different query.
Your Personal Teacher
Instead of telling Sidekick to generate a query, you can also flip things around. What if we give Sidekick a query and tell it to explain it step-by-step?
Your Personal Detective
Writing queries can be difficult, but debugging them can be even harder. While SurrealQL is one of the easiest query languages to use, there are still many intricacies behind writing valid, performant, and maintainable queries. You might run into difficulties writing complex queries or struggle with an error you can’t solve. In these situations, you can also ask Sidekick to help you out.
The Future
While Sidekick is an extremely powerful tool and can help you in many ways, it is currently still in beta. This means responses may not always be entirely accurate. As Sidekick continues to answer questions and help write queries, it will learn and grow from its conversations. We intend to keep improving Sidekick going forward, and keep it up-to-date with knowledge of the latest SurrealDB features.
FAQs
Q: What is Surreal Sidekick?
A: Surreal Sidekick is a fully-fledged AI assistant housed within the Surreal Cloud panel in Surrealist.
Q: How do I use Surreal Sidekick?
A: Open the Surrealist web app or install Surrealist Desktop on your system, then navigate to the Surreal Cloud panel and sign in.
Q: What can Surreal Sidekick do for me?
A: Sidekick can help you debug your queries, answer questions based on the latest available documentation, and optimize your use of SurrealDB.
Q: Is Surreal Sidekick still in beta?
A: Yes, Sidekick is currently in beta. This means responses may not always be entirely accurate, but it will continue to learn and improve from its conversations.
