Re: Selecting tables from Browser

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Shirley Wang <swang(at)pivotal(dot)io> wrote:

> Hi Rob
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 1:53 PM Robert Eckhardt <reckhardt(at)pivotal(dot)io>
> wrote:
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>> Shirley,
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>> I have a few questions.
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>> 1. Why 20. It is a dunbar number and seems smallish but is there
>> another reason?
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>> The browser fits about 30 ish items right now on my smallish laptop
> screen. The question we asked ourselves is 'what is the most content we can
> show before the browser gets unwieldy?'
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> You have thoughts on this?
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No thought better than 20. I was thinking a few hand full or a large enough
number to cause performance issues.

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>> 1. Since this is referred to as an Object Manager I assume the same
>> thing will eventually be available for databases, schema, partitions, etc.
>> How do permissions work currently to limit m view of these objects? (or do
>> they)
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> Good point about the name implying further reach than just tables. We're
> going to change the dialog header to show 'Select tables for display', at
> least until we decide we want to include databases, schema, partitions.
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> I'm not sure how permissions works to limit the view, our assumption is
> that permissions does though.
>
> Dave P do you have more insight on what permissions can limit?
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>> 1. Do you think that this would look differently if you assumptions
>> were based on a user who writes BI reports or some other non-DBA user?
>>
>> Potentially, as you mentioned off the email thread, a DBA would be
> interested in a larger list of tables than someone who writes BI reports.
>
> That said, since this is a problem we hear from DBAs, and they feel the
> most pain around this, I think it's fine to focus on solving the problem
> for them. Solving their pains will also address the pains of people who
> write BI reports since they also feel the same issues at a lesser intensity
>
> We will be testing with non-DBA users though too.
>

I'm mostly curious about this because I only really know how I interacted
with a DB in both roles.

-- Rob

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