Add ability to run queries remotely for large databases

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript, vscode
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by investigating whether VS Code Remote or Codespaces already provides a way to run queries against a large remote database and return results in the results view. Compare that with the alternative of running queries through code-scanning, then clarify the supported approach and its expected scope before implementation.

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Description

enhancement VSCode

Running queries over the linux kernel is difficult because the database itself is so large. Some users have requested the ability to run queries remotely and gather the results back in the results view.

This may not be top priority because:

  1. Maybe we should be running these queries through code-scanning
  2. This feature might already be available through codespaces or vscode remote. It might just be a matter of documenting how to do this.
Dominant language
TypeScript
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Forks
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Avg merge
2d 6h
Merged PRs (30d)
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