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Show all rows in Record with horizontal scrolling Mode like a spreadsheet

See original GitHub issue

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Sometimes when inspecting rows with many fields seeing them in a vertical fashion is the best way the visualize.

For doing this DBeaver has a Record Mode when displaying rows from a query. But in this mode one can see just 1 row at time and cant compare the field values side by side or among rows.

Today in grid mode all fetched rows are shown and is possible to scroll using mouse and scrollbars. But in record mode just 2 columns (Name/Value) representing 1 row are displayed.

Describe the solution you’d like

It would be a nice feature enhancement to have the ability to show all fetched rows from the query resultset in record view. So the Record/Grid mode would be transformed in a Vertical/Horizontal mode scroll direction. After this DBeaver would display/handle rows more like a spreadsheet app like excel.

Here is what a query result looks like in Grid Mode today:

col1 |col2 |
-----|-----| ^
  a  |  w  | |
  b  |  x  | |
  c  |  y  | |
  d  |  z  | v

Here is what a query result looks like in Record Mode today:

Name|Value|
----|-----|
col1|  a  |
col2|  w  |

 << < > >>

After the desired feature enhancement in Record Mode:

Name|  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |
----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
col1|  a  |  b  |  c  |  c  |
col1|  w  |  x  |  y  |  z  |
< ------------------------- >

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

Dbeaver already is wonderful and powerfull. This is just a extension of current funcionality. I can’t remember any tool doing than other than spreadsheets, excel…

Additional context

SQL for playing with the idea:

select '  a  ' as col1, '  w  ' as col2
union all
select '  b  ' as col1, '  x  ' as col2
union all
select '  c  ' as col1, '  y  ' as col2
union all
select '  d  ' as col1, '  z  ' as col2
order by 1;


select 'col1' as Name, '  a  ' as '1', '  b  ' as '2', '  c  ' as '3', '  c  ' as '4'
union all
select 'col1' as Name, '  w  ' as '1', '  x  ' as '2', '  y  ' as '3', '  z  ' as '4';

Thanks for creating the best query/database tool in world!