@louis88 had been playing around with GitHub's Copilot and @mahdiyari's public HafSQL database to figure out the retention rate and general efficiency of onboarding programs, which I watched him stream on Discord.
This made me want to create a hafsql version of the hive_tx_to_csv script using the same tools. After a lot of prompting the AI, waiting for results and test-runs, and fixing quite a lot of ridiculous mistakes, I ended up with a working version.
The big benefit of using SQL is that it's a lot faster. Get a whole year's report in a matter of seconds or minutes. The downside is that it relies on the availability of trustworthy public SQL nodes. Both scripts are kept up-to-date (just added HBD interest payments for example), choose what suits your needs best.