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Speaking of which, it would be nice if the "Collections" view - that you get in the Atlas web view by clicking on the Collections tab of a cluster's page and then clicking on one of the databases in the left-hand navigation pane - were sortable by its various columns too. When doing DBA work, I often want to look for the biggest collections/tables, or find the most recently created ones; sorting by the Storage Size or Creation Date columns (oops; Creation Date doesn't exist; would be nice to add that IMHO) would achieve that.
Also, when you scroll down in this table, the column header isn't fixed (like with a "freeze panes" in Excel, so once you scroll down a bit you can no longer see the column names, and have to just remember which is which.
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> it's honestly one of the most basic features you could think of
It kinda is, IMHO.
OTOH, Mongo Compass is kind of a toy app aimed at non-technical users who are like "eww, I don't want to think about *schemas* and *data structures* and computer-programmer stuff; I just want to put my data in the db and *deliver business impact*!". And there's a balance to be had here, between supporting advanced use, and making things easy for beginner users. I can see a scenario where, if column widths were adjustable, a business user might resize a column to be pretty wide in order to view certain data items with long string representations, and then forget that they did that, and then be like "ugh, why is this tool mostly showing just one big column with a lot of whitespace, why can't I just see my *data*, why can't they just make this *simple*?" So I can see why there's some reluctance here.
On the other hand, a tabular result set display is a lot like Excel, and if there's one thing that business users know, it's Excel. Adjustable column widths are a long time pretty basic feature of Excel, and business users are familiar with that. So even in the case where there's a big column taking up all your screen real estate in the Compass display, I think a business user would be able to figure out without assistance that you could make that column smaller (using a drag control in the UI), and thus give more of the screen real estate to other columns.