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Disagreed. I have a MBP, a Linux desktop and a Thinkpad running both Linux and Windows. My one subscription to a Jetbrains product covers all of them provided I don't run the program at the same time across multiple machines.

Believing that most engineers only have one computer IMO seems out of touch with reality.

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> My one subscription to a Jetbrains product covers all of them

And also includes their database tool, DataGrip.

> And also includes their database tool, DataGrip.

Which is awesome by itself. I use it regularly and only have minor issues with some of it's behavior, but the experience is worlds-ahead than what I've encountered previously at that price point.

DataGrip is quickly becoming unusable to me due to it’s inability to show me a tables/field encoding.

I really have no clue how anyone thought that was an unnecessary feature.

Can you elaborate on what that is? I haven’t ran I to that before.

I'm assuming they're taking about character encoding, as in utf-8.

Like the other response on this says. Tables in MySQL (and individual columns, and databases) have an encoding associated with them, this determines what characters you can store in them.

Right now I cannot modify that in Datagrip, but worse, I cannot even see it without a raw query.

Have you considered filing a ticket on their issue tracker? I find Jetbrains are pretty responsive...

The point was that the pricing of this product is _not a subscription_ so perhaps the pricing makes sense. Your response is to describe a subscription product. I am not sure I understand what you were trying to say.

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