Feature Request: Search Tables by Name

[sakibsarkar]

Feature Request: Search Tables by Name

I’m using DBX regularly, and I feel like it’s missing a useful feature when working with databases that contain a large number of tables.

It would be helpful to have a search bar for filtering tables by their names.

For example, if the database contains a table named:

user_bank_accounts

I should be able to type:

bank_accounts

into the search bar and have DBX show user_bank_accounts as a matching result.

The search could work as a partial/substring match, so it would be useful for quickly finding tables without having to manually scroll through a long list.

This would make navigating databases with many tables much faster and easier.

[t8y2]

This is already available in released DBX v0.6.40. The search field at the top of the connection sidebar supports case-insensitive substring matching: searching for bank_accounts matches user_bank_accounts. Use plain-text mode (regular expressions off). Searching objects that have not yet been loaded may require opening the relevant database/schema or using the available database search scope.

The released implementation includes an explicit substring match, so no new feature is needed for the example in this discussion. This does not claim that every search-scope bug is resolved; those are tracked separately.

Please retry on v0.6.40 or later. Closing as resolved. If this exact behavior still fails, open an issue with the DBX version, database type, selected search scope, search text and a screenshot.

Released source: https://github.com/t8y2/dbx/blob/v0.6.40/apps/desktop/src/lib/sidebar/sidebarSearch.ts