On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Shirley Wang <sw...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> Hi Rob > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 1:53 PM Robert Eckhardt <reckha...@pivotal.io> > wrote: > >> Shirley, >> >> I have a few questions. >> >> 1. Why 20. It is a dunbar number and seems smallish but is there >> another reason? >> >> 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?' > > You have thoughts on this? > No thought better than 20. I was thinking a few hand full or a large enough number to cause performance issues. > > >> >> 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) >> >> > 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. > > 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? > >> >> 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 > > >> >>
