Configure confirmations

Use the Confirmations preferences page to manage prompts for actions that may need confirmation.

Go to Window -> Preferences -> User Interface -> Confirmations.
Find the confirmation you want to configure.
Choose whether to show its dialog and how Team Edition handles the action when the dialog is hidden.
Save your changes.

Available confirmations¶

Confirmation	Description
Commit changes during disconnection	Prompts users to commit, roll back, or cancel disconnection when disconnecting with an active transaction
Commit changes during reconnection	Prompts users to commit, roll back, or cancel reconnection when reconnecting with an active transaction
Save connection and perform test	Prompts users to save the connection before testing it. Confirming saves the settings and starts the test

Confirmation	Description
Open exported file	Asks whether to open an exported diagram in its associated system application after export.

Info

For information on diagram export workflows, see How to use Diagrams.

Confirmation	Description
Exit DBeaver	Asks whether to close open editors and exit when users close Team Edition. .
Download database driver	Team Edition offers to download required driver files when they are missing.

Confirmation	Description
Reject object	Asks whether to reject changes and close the editor when undoing the only change to a new, unsaved object would close its editor.
Revert changes	Asks whether to discard unsaved changes in an object editor. Confirming resets the changes and refreshes the editor.
Acknowledge server-side ordering unavailability	Notifies users when server-side result ordering is unavailable and uses client-side ordering instead.

Confirmation	Description
Proceed and reset panel contents	Asks whether to replace the current result-set content before navigating to a related entity in the current window when a panel has unsaved changes.
Order result set	Asks whether to apply server-side ordering when it may take substantial time.
Keep open cursor	Asks whether to keep the result-set cursor open when a cursor column requires it. Confirming enables the option and refreshes the result set.
Read all rows	Asks whether to fetch all remaining rows when more result-set data is available.
No rows affected	Warns users that they may need to refresh the data after a successful data change reports zero affected rows.
Filter resultset	Asks whether to load distinct filter values when the operation may take substantial time.

Confirmation	Description
Close extra result tabs	Asks whether to let a new query close multiple unpinned result tabs. Confirming closes those tabs and continues.
Execute drop queries	Asks whether to execute a `DROP` statement.
Execute dangerous queries	Asks whether to execute an `UPDATE` or `DELETE` statement without a `WHERE` clause.
Save SQL console as a new script	Asks whether to save a non-persistent SQL console as a new script.
Cancel running queries	Asks whether to cancel running SQL queries when closing an editor. Confirming cancels them and continues closing.

Info

For information on SQL workflows, see SQL Editor.