Query Tabs

Every tab is a native macOS window tab: each tab is an NSWindow in a tab group, managed by the system tabbing API. Standard macOS tab behavior applies. Drag tabs to reorder or move them between windows, use Window > Merge All Windows and Window > Move Tab to New Window, press Ctrl+Tab to cycle, and use View > Show All Tabs (Cmd+Shift+\) for the tab overview. When more tabs open than fit, the tab bar shrinks them to fit, as in Safari. Each tab is an independent workspace with its own SQL, results, sorting, and filter state. Tabs persist across app restarts.

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Tab Types

Table tabs track cell edits as pending changes by default. Query tabs support change tracking when the query is a SELECT from one table, with or without WHERE, ORDER BY, or LIMIT. Joins, table aliases, and schema-qualified names like public.users come back read-only.

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Preview Tabs

Single-clicking a table opens a preview tab that is reused when you click a different table, like VS Code’s preview tabs. A tab with unsaved edits, an applied filter, or sorting is never replaced: the click opens a new tab instead. A preview tab becomes permanent when you double-click the table in the sidebar or interact with the tab (sort, filter, edit data). A preview tab still open at quit is restored as a permanent tab. Turn preview tabs off with Settings > General > Tabs > Enable preview tabs if you prefer every click to open a permanent tab.

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Managing Tabs

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Creating and Closing

The three bulk commands have no shortcut out of the box. Bind them in Settings > Keyboard under Navigation. Close All Tabs leaves the window open and empty rather than closing it, so the connection stays live and you can carry on with Cmd+T or a click in the sidebar. Close Tabs for Other Databases closes only windows whose every tab was opened against a database other than the one the connection is on now. It never touches the tab you are looking at, and it is limited to the current connection. Tabs from different databases are meant to coexist, so switching databases never closes anything on its own. On engines that switch schemas instead of databases, such as BigQuery and Oracle, the command reads Close Tabs for Other Schemas. Closing a query tab keeps its SQL in Recently Closed, so an accidental close costs nothing, including when you close a whole group at once. TablePro asks before closing only when unsaved work would be lost, such as pending data edits, pending structure changes, or unsaved edits to a .sql file on disk. A bulk close asks once per window that has something to lose, and cancelling stops the rest.

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Reopening Closed Tabs

The last 20 closed query and table tabs are kept for 30 days. A reopened tab comes back with its SQL, cursor position, and database context. Deleting a connection also deletes its closed tabs.

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Switching Tabs

• Cmd+1 through Cmd+9 jump to a tab by position
• Cmd+Shift+[ / Cmd+Shift+] for previous and next tab (Ctrl+Tab also works)

Each tab keeps its full state when you switch away: SQL, cursor position, results, scroll position, sort and filter state, and pending changes.

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Windows and Connections

Each connection opens its own window by default. Turn on Settings > General > Tabs > Group all connections in one window to keep tabs from different connections in a single window instead. New windows open at 1200x800; size and position are remembered across launches.

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Tab Persistence

Per-table filters are stored separately per connection, database, schema, and table, and come back when the table reopens. Tab state saves when you switch tabs and every 30 seconds in the background, so a crash or force quit keeps recent work. On relaunch, only the frontmost tab loads its data right away; other restored tabs load the first time you switch to them, so launch stays fast and the database never sees a connection storm. If a restored tab fails to load, the error shows inline in that tab, not as a dialog. Whether the last session reopens at launch is controlled by Startup Behavior.

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Pagination

Table tabs load one page at a time. The default page size is 1,000 rows, set in Settings > Data > Pagination (100, 500, 1,000, 5,000, or 10,000 rows). Query tabs are not paginated: Truncate query results (on by default) caps results at 10,000 rows, and queries with their own LIMIT are sent as written. Adjust the cap in the same settings pane. See Data Grid for the pagination controls.

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From External Clients

Raycast, Cursor, Claude Desktop, and other MCP clients can list and focus tabs across windows:

• list_recent_tabs enumerates open tabs across every window.
• focus_query_tab brings an existing tab to the front by id.
• open_connection_window opens a saved connection.
• open_table_tab opens a specific table.

The Raycast extension’s Recent Tabs command wraps these tools. See MCP Tools for input and output schemas.