Airtable | Notion

With SeekWell you can query your Airtable bases (including across multiple bases) using plain SQL (SQLite flavor).

<aside> 💡 To test this on an example Base, copy the Sales CRM Base in the Airtable Templates

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Connecting

In SeekWell, go to Source → "Add source" in the top right of the app
Add your Airtable API key to the source

You can get your API key here on your account page (Click on "Generate key" if one isn't already there
Go to https://airtable.com/api and click on the base you want to connect to. Check the URL for the Base / App ID, it start with "app". It's also shown in green on this page in third paragraph
Write some SQL! Use the Base ID (appkLTrRdxeM51z0P in this example) as the SQL schema name and the table name to test a SELECT statement
```
select *
from ***appREPLACEWITHYOURID***."Opportunities"
limit 10
```
<aside> 💡 Double quotes (") are required for Tables with space(s) in the name. For example, a table name of "This Has Spaces" will be SELECT * FROM apppId."This Has Spaces"

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Joining Tables

SeekWell adds two special columns to your Table:
- __id is the unique id for the record in your table, use this to join to "Linked" records / tables
- __createdTime is the timestamp for when the record was created
You can use these like any other column

In the Sales CRM Base, there is an Accounts table and a Contacts table. To join them, let's use the first id of the first linked Contact and get their Name

select 
a.__id as account_id,
a.__createdTime as account_created_on,
a.Size as size,
substr(a.Opportunities, 3, 17) as first_op,
substr(a.Contacts, 3, 17) as primary_contact,
c.Name as contact_name
from 
***appREPLACEWITHYOURID***."Accounts" as a inner join 
***appREPLACEWITHYOURID***.Contacts as c on substr(a.Contacts, 3, 17) = c.__id
limit 10

<aside> 💡 This substr is necassary because Airtable return a linked records as an array. This substring gets just the id of the first item in the array

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