11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions which when executed by one or more processors of a computer system perform operations for searching a hierarchical database structure of a database management system, the operations comprising: detecting text input in a database search field of a graphical user interface of the computer system, wherein the text input defines a search for data in the hierarchical database structure, wherein the hierarchical database structure includes items, indexes for looking up data in the hierarchical database structure, and database schemas defining databases in the hierarchical database structure, and wherein the items include one or more of actions to be performed on data in the hierarchical database structure; if the text input does not include text specifying a path in the hierarchical database structure, determining that there is no exact match between the text input and items in the hierarchical database; selecting items for presentation on the graphical user interface from the hierarchical database structure based on the text input for inclusion in search results, wherein the text input includes one or more keywords specifying one or more filters to be applied to during selection of items in the hierarchical database structure, wherein the one or more filters include one or more filters to exclude views, sequences or stored procedures; in response to the determining that there is no exact match between the text input and items in the hierarchical database, presenting the search results in the graphical user interface on a display device, the search results comprising items in the hierarchical database that are potentially related to the text input, wherein an entry for an item in the search results includes at least one lexicographically related identifier for a table name corresponding to an item in the search results and a logically related selectable option associated with a table corresponding to the table name, wherein the logically related selectable option comprises an action to be performed with respect to the table, the action including at least one of drop table, view data, query or view hierarchy for altering the table from the hierarchical database structure; and detecting input representing a user's selection of the logically related selectable option.
12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the selectable option appears as text in the graphical user interface.