You’re doing some data clean-up, or maybe you’re just trying to answer a business question for a user, and you notice the data doesn’t look quite right.
Name that tune…
You want to click in that ‘(null)’ cell and tell the world that Tyler and Perry composed that song! But, we’re in a query result set, and not a table editor. I’m the ultimate lazy-dev, so what’s the easiest way to get what I want?
Throw In a Little Copy & Paste with some Mouse Magic
Copy the WHERE and ctrl+hover into the table
- Copy your WHERE clause, minus the actual word ‘WHERE’
- Ctrl+Mouse hover over the table or view name in the FROM
This should get you here:
Every Table and View Editor Has a Filter Control
Now paste in your text from where you copied it in the worksheet and hit
Edit away!
But Why Can’t I Just Edit the Data in The Worksheet?
Suffice to say there are philosophical and technical challenges at play here. We’ve decided to leave the worksheet as a place where you go query and run scripts. Interactive (read+write) grids are not on the road map currently. Obviously many of you feel differently as it’s the #1 request on the Exchange.
But instead of just ‘being stuck’ I hope you find this alternative workflow better than just writing your UPDATEs and DELETEs on your own.
No, you can’t always get what you want
No, you can’t always get what you want
No, you can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometime, you just might find
You get what you need— Mick Jagger/Keith Richards