indicator for: query executed successfully

[michabbb]

hi alex,

does there anything exist that shows more clearly that a query was "okay" ?
then only this tiny little notice on the right side of my screen:



BECAUSE: This is more emotional than - searching for a tiny little green dot to get a good feeling,
that everything was okay is kinda bad.

sometimes, dbforge pops up a tiny window that says the same and gives some extra info,
i don´t know if that popup only appears on selects. but when this popup appears, i feel good, because,
something happens on my screen, i see a response with infos and i know everything is fine.

if i do trivial updates like "UPDATE table SET x=1 WHERE y=2" i don´t get or see anything.
very often i am very unsure if something happened at all. so i always take a look into the query-log,
but that costs me time and many clicks and scrolling.

you can argue: if dbforge does not show an error, you can feel safe. but I don´t ;-)
I am more the kind of person that would be happy to also get feedback on positive stuff ;-)

is there an option for this ? if not, please consider to be more responsive for queries that worked without errors,
because i really need to be sure that queries have been executed and that they didn´t throw any errors.

another example: you run a query that a few seconds, you switch to another application because you don´t wanna
waste time and do something in parallel in that time.... then you switch back to dbforge... and ? you have no indication
about the result of your last query, except it had an error. but for success: no idea. even a popup was there, as long
as it disappears without clicking, i have no choice as checking the query log to "confirm for myself" that the last query
has run and if it was okay.

so having a popups that stays, till i "confirm" would be something great !
of course optional, for people like me.

but this would produce a great feeling and trust in the software,
because with all that bugs we have seen in that years, you always feel uncomfortable without any active positive feedback.

i hope you understand ;)

thanks,
micha

[alexa]

Hello Micha,

You could set the 'Notify if query execution exceeds' option to 0 (navigate to the 'Environment -> Documents -> Notifications' branch in the 'Options' window).

[michabbb]

fantastic, i will test this !

[michabbb]

hey alex,

your tip is working, BUT , seeing this popup for every tiny select has the opposite effect,
it´s becoming a little bit annoying ;)

because: for selects i see my result immediately, i see what i am doing
for updates or deletes: i don´t see if everything worked as expected.

usually, you do much more selects than updates/deletes. so these popups start to annoy a little bit ;)

i would like to make the suggestion, to extend dbforge options, to distinguish between:

- selects
- and query without any result (delete, update, .....)

it´s important to get feedback for things, where my query does not have any result.
for simple selects, i see the result, there i don´t need a popup all the time.

so in that case, i would be able to handle these popups like:

- selects: show only if query takes longer than 10 seconds
- everything else: 0 (as you suggested)

these are the tiny things in life, i know... but such features would make dbforge much more
user-friendly in daily work ;-)

thanks,
micha

[alexa]

You can add a suggestion on the UserVoice forum https://devart.uservoice.com/forums/77293-dbforge-studio-for-mysql

[michabbb]

i did.... thanks

[michabbb]

hey Alex, you have a serious spam problem in that forum 😒