Enhancement Request: describe

[ScottMattes]

I am spending a fair amount of time waiting for the Describe window to display.

I would like to recommend that PLSD be changed to allow an option of storing table information, by schema, on my disk so that if the local table info is displayed instead of getting it anew each describe.

I envision that there would be in the Preference window a button to let the user select a schema and to create/refresh the local files. there would also be a button to force PLSD to get all the chosen schema's describe data right then. If the user doesn't use that button, the first time a describe is done PLSD will get the information and save it locally.

A future enhancement could be to automatically check if the local describe data is out of date - that might not be so easy so I'd want it as a user directed check.

When I ask for a describe, PLSD checks my Prefs and if set it will display the local file instead of going to the DB.

Thank you

 

[ScottMattes]

A kludge that kind of works:

- Add a directory to the File Browser
- Describe a table
- right click the Describe window and save as html and put it in the directory made in first step
- when you want to see the describe, go to the file browser window and double click the file

this is not ideal because the file isn't displayed in a stay on top window like the Describe window

 

[Marco Kalter]

I have added this to the list of enhancement requests.

 

[Jeff81]

That is odd. Describe has always been super fast for me.