# Database Development General Preferences

The general user preferences concern executing and debugging procedural objects.

Table 1. General preferences
Property | Description
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Show Affordance in Hover on How to Make it Sticky | Displays the `Press F2 for focus` message in hover help (ToolTips). If you make a hover message sticky, the message text opens in a scrollable window from which you can select and copy content.

SQL Error Execution Action

Select the action to be taken on an error during SQL execution.

- Always — always continues execution when an error occurs.
- Never — always stops execution when an error occurs.
- Prompt — interrupts execution on each error, displaying a dialog to resume execution (default).

Parent topic: Setting SQL Development Preferences
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