Closing a ticket with a number less than 100 is not something that frequently happens. Especially when it’s a long-awaited feature. We are happy to introduce our new feature: group data sources. Press F6 or choose Move to group… from the context menu.
Users and roles are now displayed in PostgreSQL and AWS Redshift.
Foreign Data Wrappers and as a consequence, foreign tables, are now displayed in PostgreSQL.
References navigation
In one of the minor updates to 2017.2 we introduced a new flow for navigation. To cover all the use-cases, and for those who are used to the previous versions, in 2017.3 we added the option Navigate references to DDL editor.
With the Auto-scroll from Editor option you can get several types of behavior by pressing Navigate to declaration (Ctrl/Cmd+B or Ctrl/Cmd + Click)
Navigate referencesto DDL editor On Auto-scroll from Editor On
You’ll be taken to the DDL of the objects, the objects will be highlighted in the Database View. Focus in the Editor.
Navigate referencesto DDL editor On Auto-scroll from Editor Off
You’ll be taken to the DDL of the object, nothing will be highlighted in the Database View. Focus in the Editor.
Navigate referencesto DDL editor Off
“Old” behavior. The object will be highlighted in Database View, the Editor tab will remain as it is. Focus in the Database View.
Compare cells
Values of two or three cells can be compared in Diff Viewer. Select them and press Shift+Ctrl/Cmd+D
PostgreSQL 10 grammar support
If you are already using PostgreSQL 10 and see any incorrect code highlighting, please report it to us.
Other enhancements
— Adding support for automatic Regexp detection in regexp_replace function, we added automatic detection of Regexp, JSON, XML and XPath to many functions and operators in various databases. To use XPath injection, please, install XPath view + XSLT Support plugin. View all of the new injections in Settings → Editor → Language injections.
Hello! There is a long tradition of letting you try out our new product features before the official release, so welcome DataGrip 2107.3 Early Access Program.
This version improves the workflow with consoles and files, adds new Execute actions and introduces right alignment of numbers. Let’s take a closer look at the new features:
Ability to choose a console
The context menu in the data source was upgraded. Choose Jump to Console and you’ll now have a menu which allows you to quickly switch between consoles which were created already.
The same options will appear when attaching the console to a file.
Several Execute actions
There was only one Execute action before; now there are three of them. Change the behavior, and assign shortcuts: they are completely independent. For example, you can create an action which will execute the whole script, without having to choose the exact query from the script.
JOIN statement completion
It became even smarter! Now it offers you the variant with the complete clause.
Right-side alignment of numerical data
For better readability, now DataGrip aligns the numerical data in the table editor with the right hand side of the column.
Choosing schemas
We moved Schemas… node from the database tree, now use Context menu → Database tools → Manage selected schemas or simply press Alt+Enter on the data source.
DataGrip now prompts you to choose a database/schema along with a data source when you try to run an SQL file from the context menu.
And there is a small improvement for those who didn’t like to use the mouse to choose the schema of the console or the search path.
Now there is an action called Set Current Schema. You can assign a shortcut or invoke it from Find Action (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+A).
Support for Exasol
We added the support for Exasol database, thanks to authors for their help! And we’ll be happy to hear the feedback from those, who use Exasol.
Other enhancements
– Time is always displayed in UTC.
– Generate DDL on tables node doesn’t include views anymore.
– DDL generation for tables is better.
– DDL generation in MySQL works with escaped quotation marks. But the fix can raise performance problems. See details.
– All attributes (except obj_file and ink_symbol) are generated in the function DDL for PostgreSQL.
Hello! This September a couple of folks from DataGrip team will take part in several events in the United States. Maksim Sobolevskiy (Product Marketing Manager) and Vasiliy Chernov (QA Engineer) will give a DataGrip tips’n’tricks talk at various meetups and will be running a booth at SQL Saturday conference in Spartanburg.
We kindly ask you to register for the events — it will help both the organizers and us. At every event you’ll have a chance to grab some swag and 20% discount coupons for DataGrip!
— Export options are enabled again, but some issues persist, so we don’t close this issue.
— Custom dialect data sources are visible in the Run against list.
— Many people complained about UI freezing, we investigated this and fixed bugs raising the problem.
— Editing data in DB2 is back.
— Stored procedures code is generated correctly in SQL Server.
Hello! The first update for DataGrip 2017.2 is rather important.
In this release cycle, we are focused on improving navigation. As we wrote in our release blog-post, we divided Data and DDL tabs in the table data editor. There was a problem (well, our fault) that Edit Source wasn’t very visible on the toolbar and it was the only way to see the DDL of the table.
We added several enhancements:
— To see DDL of any database object go to Context menu → DDL and sources → Source editor.
— Use Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+B to switch between table’s Data and table’s DDL. It works in both directions. Also, there is the DDL button in the data editor toolbar
And the Data Editor button in the DDL editor.
— A new action is introduced called Select in the database view. Now there is no UI shortcut, but you can invoke it by Ctrl+Shift+A or define your own shortcut. Remember, that the same can be done in a more general way: press Alt+F1 on any object and choose Database view.
We continue working on that. If we still don’t cover your use case, please describe it in the comments.
Other fixes:
— Dump actions now work on files with attached console.
— DBE-4505 No wrong rounding in Oracle during import.
— DBE-4902More… link now works in Quick Evaluate.
— DBE-4953 Scrolling works in the database switcher for PostgreSQL.
Database сloud services are growing more popular with every day. We were asked to add support for these two, especially Redshift, and here they are.
Microsoft Azure is similar to SQL Server, so we just added a dedicated driver, UI for adding the data source and some enhancements in the introspection.
But there are many things we did for Amazon Redshift. The introspection is now incremental. This means that only modified objects will be refreshed in a database tree after any operation instead of all objects.
Also, we started to support specific cases in SQL grammar which are different from PostgreSQL. For example, UNLOAD statement is not only highlighted correctly, but has an SQL-injection inside.
Another example: support for embedded Redshift functions that are absent in PostgreSQL.
Generation of the DDL scripts for tables and functions has been enhanced.
Now DDL for tables contains the following attribute:
The source code of a function is now generated with the following section:
PgSQL
1
{VOLATILE|STABLE|IMMUTABLE}
In general, our support means, that if a part of your Redshift code is highlighted as an error but in fact it isn’t, we consider this a bug. Please report such cases to our issue tracker.
If you’re already using Azure and Redshift via SQL Server and PostgreSQL drivers, please re-select the driver in the data source properties window:
Several databases in one PostgreSQL data source
This was a really long-awaited feature, but the wait is finally over. Thanks for bearing with us! We refactored a lot of code to implement this functionality, so some things might still be missing. Please give us your feedback on your experience using data sources with multiple databases.
Data sources with several databases are also supported for Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure, and any unsupported databases whose drivers report several databases.
Transaction Control
Transaction Control feature replaced the Auto-commit option.
First, define what kind of transaction control you want to use when working with a particular data source. This option is available in data source properties. In the Auto mode you don’t need to commit any transactions executing the commit statement., while in the Manual mode, you, obviously need to do this.
This also can be defined for each query console along with the isolation level.
The data editor in the Manual mode also has Commit and Rollback buttons on toolbar. All actions are also available in the context menu.
So, now it works like this:
Auto and Manual mode
Submit button or Ctrl/Cmd+Enter → submits your data, which means that your local changes(they are highlighted) are submitted to the database. If you are in the Manual mode this transaction is not committed.
Revert Selected from the context menu or Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+Z (it used to be Ctrl+Z, but Revert isn’t Undo, right?) on selected rows → reverts unsubmitted local changes of the selected rows.
Only in Manual mode
Commit button or Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Enter → commits the transaction. If you have unsubmitted local changes (again, they are highlighted) they will be automatically submitted before the commit.
Rollback button → rolls back transaction if it’s uncommitted.
Evaluate expression
This will help you see data without writing a query to the console.
In other IntelliJ-based IDEs, Ctrl+Alt+F8 on an object gives you quick evaluation. In DataGrip, invoke it on a table in a query to see the data of that table.
Ctrl+Alt+F8 on a column name will show the values of that column in the expected result-set.
If you invoke the same quick evaluate on the keyword of a query (or subquery), the pop-up will show you the result. Note that Alt+Click also works for this.
Press Alt+F8 to open an Evaluate pop-up, where any query can be run. If invoked on a table, it will show the data.
You can evaluate expressions here as well.
Table DDL
We have divided the Data and DDL tabs when viewing a table. Actually, there are no more tabs. Now, when you open a table with a double-click, you just see data. Where is the DDL? It can be opened by Edit Source on the toolbar or by Ctrl/Cmd+B.
The same DDL editor will open when pressing Ctrl/Cmd+B on the table name in the SQL script. As you may remember, Ctrl/Cmd+click does the same. In the previous versions this action brought you to the database tree. If you still need this, press Alt+F1 on any object and choose Database view.
It became easier to open Data editor for a table. Just click F4 on the table name, either in the database tree or in SQL.
Integration with restore tools for PostgreSQL and MySQL
In 2016.3 we integrated DataGrip with mysqldump and pg_dump, so it’s logical to add integration with the restore tools of these databases as well. Now they can be accessed from the context menu. If there’s only one tool available, this option will look like ‘Restore with pg_restore’, etc.
In the case of PostgreSQL, the restore operation can be done with pg_dump or psql: there is a chooser in the Restore dialog:
And it looks like this in MySQL:
Executing queries
There is a new action for any file called Attach console. You can find via Ctrl+Shift+A or by opening the context menu for a file. After performing this action, this file can be run against the console. Switching consoles will be useful if you want to run the same script in several data sources.
Called-for feature: a notification is now displayed when a large query is finished. To disable it, in Settings look for the “Database queries that took much time” notification. It appears if it took more than 20 seconds to execute a statement.
Many of you have asked for result-sets to be switched along with the corresponding consoles. Done!
The same works in the opposite direction.
These behaviors are on by default, look for the “Autoscroll ..” toggles in the gear-icon menu of the Database Console tool window.
And another small enhancement: when you execute a query with subqueries, the outer statement is selected in the drop-down by default. Well, nested statements often just cannot be executed at all.
Schema switcher works in MySQL even with a read-only connection.
Coding assistance
Completion now works for columns in table-valued functions.
NEW and OLD references are resolved in PostgreSQL triggers.
We’ve added support for MERGE statements for all databases where they are available.
Objects are resolved by their OID values in PostgreSQL.
Sequences are resolved in scripts as well.
Other
New features:
— Database objects can be added to Bookmarks.
— You can now pause file indexing when you need to free the CPU for other tasks, and then resume it when appropriate.
— We added per-monitor DPI support for Windows. Font settings are automatically adjusted based on the display resolution.
— Lines with two identical results are merged in Find in Path.
— Support for non-int-literal expressions in TABLESAMPLE and ALTER FOREIGN TABLE in Postgres.
— Support for ‘json_table’ function in Oracle.
Important fixes:
— DBE-4600 with renaming schemas.
— DBE-1288 with renaming sequences in PostgreSQL.
— DBE-4507 in composite primary key editing.
— DBE-4637 about a wrong error message in queries with GROUP BY.
— Faster data editor scrolling
All IntelliJ-based IDEs are getting closer to the 2017.2 release. Here is DataGrip 2017.2 RC. Let’s have a look at what has been added since the latest EAP.
Integration with restore tools for PostgreSQL and MySQL
In 2017.1 we integrated DataGrip with mysqldump and pg_dump, so it’s logical to add integration with the restore tools of these databases as well. Now they can be accessed from the context menu. If there’s only one tool available, this option will look like ‘Restore with pg_dump’, etc.
In the case of PostgreSQL, the restore operation can be done with pg_dump or psql: there is a chooser in the Restore dialog:
And it looks like this in MySQL:
Automatic scrolling from a result-set
If you switch result-sets, the corresponding consoles are switched as well.
Database objects in bookmarks
Press F11 (F3 for OSX) to add any database object to Bookmarks. Then you can find all your Bookmarks via Shift+F11 (Cmd+F3) and then navigate to the object source by pressing F4.
Remember that the active DataGrip subscription is required for the RC build. And don’t miss the blog post about all new features in this release!
Hi, EAPers! Thank you for trying our early builds.
Transaction Control
In this build, you’re going to meet the Transaction Control feature that replaced the Auto-commit option.
First, define what kind of transaction control you want to use when working with a particular data source. This option is available in data source properties. In the Auto mode you don’t need to commit any transactions executing the commit statement., while in the Manual mode, you, obviously need to do this.
This also can be defined for each query console along with the isolation level.
The behavior of the data editor has also changed for the Manual mode. We’ve added two new buttons to the toolbar: Commit and Rollback. The Revert button is moved to the context menu. So, now it works like this:
Auto and Manual mode
Submit button or Ctrl/Cmd+Enter → submits your data, which means that your local changes (they are highlighted) are submitted to the database. If you are in the Manual mode this transaction is not committed.
Revert Selected from the context menu or Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+Z (it used to be Ctrl+Z, but Revert isn’t Undo, right?) on selected rows → reverts unsubmitted local changes of the selected rows.
Only in Manual mode
Commit button or Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Enter → Commits the transaction. If you have unsubmitted local changes (again, they are highlighted) they will be automatically submitted before the commit.
Rollback button → Rollbacks transaction if it’s uncommitted.
Table DDL
We have divided the Data and DDL tabs when viewing a table. Actually, there are no more tabs. Now, when you open a table by a double-click, you just see data. Where is DDL? It can be opened by Edit Source on the toolbar or by Ctrl/Cmd+B.
The same DDL editor will open when pressing Ctrl/Cmd+B on the table name in the SQL script. As you may remember, Ctrl/Cmd+click does the same. In the previous versions this action was bringing you to the database tree. If you still need this, press Alt+F1 on any object and choose Database view.
It became easier to open Data editor for a table. Just click F4 on the table name, either in the database tree or in SQL.
Subqueries
And another small enhancement: when you execute a query with subqueries, the outer statement is selected in the drop-down by default. Well, nested statements are often just cannot be executed at all.
A small update for the current version. The most important fixes:
DBE-2771 — Important fix with “column reference is ambiguous” for Postgres EDB users. DBE-4753 — “Invalidate Caches/Restart” is enabled in the Find action menu. DBE-4733 — Empty rows are removed from the console output tab.
We hosted our very first webinar on Wednesday, July 14th. Thanks to all who joined us and especially those who asked questions. We hope it all was useful for you and your feedback on the webinar is very welcome!
Here is the recording. Let me briefly describe what we talked about.
— Creating a simple query: Live templates, code completion, expand column list.
— Subqueries: Surround with, executing options, compare result-sets.
— Data editor: Bulk sumbit, multiple submit, foreign keys navigation, transpose view etc.
— Data extractors: Text extractors, SQL extractors, INSERTs batch editing, etc.
— Navigation and search: Finding objects in the database, text in the source code, data in the table, column in the result-set.
— User parameters.
— Questions and answers.
Introduction
DataGrip is a standalone IDE for SQL based on IntelliJ Platform. All of DataGrip’s features are also available in other IDEs from JetBrains like IntelliJ IDEA, PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, as well as the upcoming Rider and Gogland. DataGrip supports the most popular databases, and will add support for Amazon Redshift and Microsoft Azure this July.
Live templates let you insert frequently-used or custom code constructs into your scripts. You can create your own, too!
We highlighted several types of code completion, the most interesting being abbreviation completion and JOIN statement completion.
The IDE can complete your statement in a JOIN clause if the tables are connected with a foreign key.
Abbreviation completion lets you type abbreviations of database objects to use them in your code. For example fica for film_category, or gabi for getAuthorByID.
Expand column list lets you use the list of columns instead of wildcards.
To surround one query with another, or to make a common table expression, use the Surround With action by Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+T. Func(exp) means that the caret will be placed before the parentheses, not after.
DataGrip lets you define what particular query you wish to execute after pressing Cmd/Ctrl+Enter: only a subquery, the whole statement where the caret is, or the whole script.
If you have two result-sets, they can be compared in Diff Viewer.
The grid is editable: when you observe table data, you can apply any changes just like you would in Excel. All your changes are stored locally and can be submitted at once. Local changes are colored, so you can see which changes you are going to save, be it updating, inserting or deleting rows. Submit with Ctrl+Enter. Ctrl+Z is for reverting, but works in a tricky way — only the currently selected changes are canceled. If you wish to cancel all changes, select all cells with Ctrl+A before using Ctrl+Z.
Several fields can be edited at once — just select them and begin typing. Of course, it works only if the columns you are editing are not unique and have the same type. Copy and paste works here as well.
Use foreign keys navigation to see referencing data. For example, when you press Cmd+Down/F4 on the actor_id field with some particular value, you see the list of referencing tables. In our case it was only the film_actor table. Choose ‘referencing rows only’ and see the rows with actor_id = 6. Obviously, it’s just the list of films where the actor with id = 6 took part in. And again, pressing Cmd+Down/F4 on any row can bring you to this film’s row in the film table.
The Transpose view option lets you, surprisingly, transpose data! In other words, it flips your table: rows become columns and vice versa.
Any result-set or data can be extracted in many ways. The most obvious one is the CSV format. Just choose the extractor and then extract the data to the file or to the clipboard. Extracting to the clipboard is also mapped for the Copy action (Cmd/Ctrl+C), and this is what we use for the demonstration.
Paste your CSV data anywhere you want to. We used a scratch file – a temporary file which can be created at any moment just from the IDE.
There are several text formats to export data in, including JSON, HTML, and XML. You can even create your own format with Groovy. Existing extractors can be found in Files (Cmd/Ctrl+2) → Scratches → Extensions → DataGrip → data → extractors.
Here are a couple of useful extractors: SQL Updates and SQL Inserts. You data will be presented as a batch of SQL statements. We showed a couple features which can help when you edit a batch of INSERT statements. First, ‘Edit as Table’ — select all statements you need to edit and choose this option from the context menu. Then, in a temporary table, edit the values you’re going to insert.
Another way to edit several statements at once is multiple cursors. The easiest way to place them is to press Alt/Ctrl twice, hold it and press the Up or Down arrow keys.
You can navigate to the declaration of any resolved symbol with Cmd/Ctrl+Click, whether it is located in your SQL code or in the database.
Navigate to a database object (like a table, procedure and so on) by pressing Cmd+O/Ctrl+N. If it is a table, a table editor will open. Cmd+Shift+O/Ctrl+Shift+N will bring you to any file.
Ctrl+F will find text in the editor, which is trivial. What’s not trivial is that Ctrl/Cmd+Space will invoke the code completion based on the words in the corresponding file!
Ctrl+F in the data editor helps you quickly find data inside a table, without writing a statement. It’s especially helpful if you don’t know which exact column contains the data you’re looking for. You can see only rows with matches, if you prefer.
A small tip for searching for columns in any result-set or table: Open Structure view with Ctrl+F12 and start typing! Speed search saves you again and filters the columns based on what you’ve typed. Press Enter to navigate to a particular column.
When you get an SQL query from another application, it can be parameterized. DataGrip supports running this kind of queries. The UI for editing parameter patterns is available in Settings/Preferences → Database → User Parameters. Regular expressions are highlighted and you can choose in what dialect these patterns are valid.
That wrapped up the main part of the webinar.
Questions and answers
(the most interesting ones)
30:03
Q: Do you plan to support Hive or Impala?
A: DataGrip can connect to any database which has a JDBC-driver. It means that you can connect to Hive or Impala, see tables and other objects, and run queries. Special features of these kind of database are not supported and their syntax is not correctly highlighted. There is an issue in our tracker about adding the possibility to define custom dialects in DataGrip.
31:02
Q: What about version control systems?
A: DataGrip supports Version Control Systems like Git, SVN, Mercurial and some others. But this support doesn’t come out of the box: you need to install a JetBrains plugin for it. Go to Settings → Plugins → Browse repositories and search for the plugin you need. This plugin will bring first-class support for any VCS you need.
32:00
Q: Do you plan to add more management tools?
A: Not any time soon. We are focusing on developers for now, but we will consider adding administration support later.
32:57
Q: Is there a way to share data sources from DataGrip to other IDEs?
A: Select the data sources you want to share and then go to context menu → Database Tools → Copy Settings.
Press + to add a new datasource and choose Import from Clipboard. During the webinar I said that this feature would be coming in the new version, but it’s also available in 2017.1.4 as long as datasource information is already copied to the clipboard.
It didn’t work during the webinar only because I didn’t actually press Copy Settings.
47:15
Q: Is it possible to record DDL and DML actions?
A: We are thinking about logging all queries coming from DataGrip. The only thing we offer now is the Modify Table window, where all your changes to the table are reflected in the generated script.
49:20
Q: Can users configure the CSV format and use the custom delimiter?
A: Sure, simply choose Configure CSV formats… from the extractors drop-down.
51:15
Q: Is there a way to load CSV files to the database?
A: There are several ways to do that. The most common is to choose ‘Import data from file’ from the context menu of your database or schema. Or, you can just drag and drop your CSV file to the appropriate place in your database.
58:05
Q: What about data visualization, like graphs or pie-charts?
A: Sorry, there is no data visualization in DataGrip.
58:55
Q: Can we compare result-sets from different data sources?
A: Yes, you can.
That’s it! Thank you for your time, and if you’d like to have a webinar on a particular topic, let us know!
