diff --git a/Tools/OutWit.Database.Studio.Tests/ViewModels/ADoubleClickOpensWhatTheNodeIsTests.cs b/Tools/OutWit.Database.Studio.Tests/ViewModels/ADoubleClickOpensWhatTheNodeIsTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e83071
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+++ b/Tools/OutWit.Database.Studio.Tests/ViewModels/ADoubleClickOpensWhatTheNodeIsTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,221 @@
+using OutWit.Database.Studio.Models;
+using OutWit.Database.Studio.Tests.Helpers;
+using OutWit.Database.Studio.ViewModels.Tabs;
+
+namespace OutWit.Database.Studio.Tests.ViewModels;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// A double click opens the thing the node IS.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// <para>
+/// One rule rather than three exceptions. A table IS its rows, so it opens the editor (WS-19); a view
+/// IS the rows it selects; and the connection IS the database, so it opens the tab that describes it
+/// - the same one <i>Database…</i> opens in the menu. Asked for in chat on 2026-08-19: <i>would it
+/// not be logical for a double click on the database to open its properties, as the menu item does?</i>
+/// </para>
+/// <para>
+/// <b>The decision is in the ViewModel and this fixture is why.</b> It used to be a switch in the
+/// code-behind, where the double click had already been broken once and repaired onto a route that
+/// does not exist, with 1014 tests unable to say a word about any of it. A gesture belongs to the
+/// view; which node opens what is a rule, and a rule written where no test can read it is a rule that
+/// holds only until someone edits it.
+/// </para>
+/// </remarks>
+[TestFixture]
+public class ADoubleClickOpensWhatTheNodeIsTests
+{
+    #region Fields
+
+    private StudioFixture m_studio = null!;
+
+    #endregion
+
+    #region Setup
+
+    [SetUp]
+    public async Task SetUp()
+    {
+        m_studio = await StudioFixture.CreateAsync();
+
+        await m_studio.Explorer.RefreshAsync();
+    }
+
+    [TearDown]
+    public async Task TearDown()
+    {
+        await m_studio.DisposeAsync();
+    }
+
+    #endregion
+
+    #region What each node opens
+
+    [Test]
+    public async Task ATableOpensItsRowsTest()
+    {
+        Select(DatabaseNodeType.Table, "Customers");
+
+        var opened = await OpenAsync();
+
+        Assert.Multiple(() =>
+        {
+            Assert.That(opened, Is.InstanceOf<TableEditTabViewModel>(),
+                "a table IS its rows, and they are opened for editing rather than for reading");
+
+            Assert.That(((TableEditTabViewModel)opened!).TableName, Is.EqualTo("Customers"));
+        });
+    }
+
+    [Test]
+    public async Task AViewOpensTheRowsItSelectsTest()
+    {
+        Select(DatabaseNodeType.View, "ActiveOrders");
+
+        var opened = await OpenAsync();
+
+        Assert.Multiple(() =>
+        {
+            Assert.That(opened, Is.InstanceOf<QueryTabViewModel>(),
+                "a view has no rows of its own to edit, so its query is opened instead");
+
+            Assert.That(opened!.Title, Does.Contain("ActiveOrders"));
+        });
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The one this fixture was written for.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Test]
+    public async Task TheConnectionOpensTheTabThatDescribesItTest()
+    {
+        Select(DatabaseNodeType.Database);
+
+        var opened = await OpenAsync();
+
+        Assert.That(opened, Is.InstanceOf<DatabaseTabViewModel>(),
+            "the connection IS the database, and the double click opens what «Database…» opens");
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// And the same tab as the menu item, not a second one beside it.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Test]
+    public async Task TheDoubleClickAndTheMenuItemOpenTheSameTabTest()
+    {
+        Select(DatabaseNodeType.Database);
+
+        var fromTheDoubleClick = await OpenAsync();
+
+        await m_studio.Explorer.OpenWhatItIsAsync();
+
+        Assert.Multiple(() =>
+        {
+            Assert.That(m_studio.Workspace.Tabs.OfType<DatabaseTabViewModel>().Count(), Is.EqualTo(1),
+                "opening it twice is opening it once");
+
+            Assert.That(m_studio.Workspace.Tabs, Does.Contain(fromTheDoubleClick));
+        });
+    }
+
+    #endregion
+
+    #region What no node opens
+
+    [Test]
+    public async Task NothingElseOpensAnythingTest()
+    {
+        var nothing = new[]
+        {
+            DatabaseNodeType.TablesFolder, DatabaseNodeType.ViewsFolder,
+            DatabaseNodeType.IndexesFolder, DatabaseNodeType.TriggersFolder,
+            DatabaseNodeType.SequencesFolder, DatabaseNodeType.RoutinesFolder,
+            DatabaseNodeType.Index, DatabaseNodeType.Trigger, DatabaseNodeType.Column
+        };
+
+        var offenders = new List<string>();
+
+        foreach (var type in nothing)
+        {
+            Select(type);
+
+            var before = m_studio.Workspace.Tabs.Count;
+
+            if (m_studio.Explorer.CanOpenWhatItIs)
+                offenders.Add($"{type}: says it has something to open");
+
+            await m_studio.Explorer.OpenWhatItIsAsync();
+
+            if (m_studio.Workspace.Tabs.Count != before)
+                offenders.Add($"{type}: opened a tab anyway");
+        }
+
+        Assert.Multiple(() =>
+        {
+            Assert.That(offenders, Is.Empty, string.Join(Environment.NewLine, offenders));
+
+            // CONTROL: the other direction, in the same case. A property that answered false to
+            // everything would satisfy every assertion above.
+            Select(DatabaseNodeType.Table, "Customers");
+            Assert.That(m_studio.Explorer.CanOpenWhatItIs, Is.True,
+                "CONTROL: a table does have something to open");
+        });
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// A node that cannot be reached because its connection has gone is not offered either - the
+    /// same distinction the menu makes between «does not apply» and «cannot right now».
+    /// </summary>
+    [Test]
+    public async Task ADisconnectedTreeOpensNothingTest()
+    {
+        Select(DatabaseNodeType.Table, "Customers");
+
+        Assume.That(m_studio.Explorer.CanOpenWhatItIs, Is.True);
+
+        await m_studio.Connections.CloseAllAsync();
+
+        Assert.That(m_studio.Explorer.CanOpenWhatItIs, Is.False,
+            "there is nothing left to open it in");
+    }
+
+    #endregion
+
+    #region Tools
+
+    /// <summary>Opens what the selected node is, and answers with the tab that appeared.</summary>
+    private async Task<WorkspaceTabViewModel?> OpenAsync()
+    {
+        var before = m_studio.Workspace.Tabs.ToList();
+
+        Assert.That(m_studio.Explorer.CanOpenWhatItIs, Is.True,
+            "this node says it has nothing to open");
+
+        await m_studio.Explorer.OpenWhatItIsAsync();
+
+        return m_studio.Workspace.Tabs.Except(before).FirstOrDefault();
+    }
+
+    private void Select(DatabaseNodeType type, string? named = null)
+    {
+        var node = Walk(m_studio.Explorer.Nodes).FirstOrDefault(candidate =>
+            candidate.NodeType == type && (named == null || candidate.Name == named));
+
+        Assert.That(node, Is.Not.Null, $"the tree has a {type} node{(named == null ? "" : " called " + named)}");
+
+        m_studio.Explorer.SelectedNode = node;
+    }
+
+    private static IEnumerable<DatabaseNode> Walk(IEnumerable<DatabaseNode> nodes)
+    {
+        foreach (var node in nodes)
+        {
+            yield return node;
+
+            foreach (var child in Walk(node.Children))
+                yield return child;
+        }
+    }
+
+    #endregion
+}
diff --git a/Tools/OutWit.Database.Studio/ViewModels/DatabaseExplorerViewModel.cs b/Tools/OutWit.Database.Studio/ViewModels/DatabaseExplorerViewModel.cs
index 78177a8..a4d6e12 100644
--- a/Tools/OutWit.Database.Studio/ViewModels/DatabaseExplorerViewModel.cs
+++ b/Tools/OutWit.Database.Studio/ViewModels/DatabaseExplorerViewModel.cs
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ private void InitCommands()
         SelectTop100Command = new RelayCommand(SelectTop100);
         SelectTop1000Command = new RelayCommand(SelectTop1000);
         OpenDatabaseTabCommand = new RelayCommandAsync(OpenDatabaseTabAsync);
+        OpenWhatItIsCommand = new RelayCommandAsync(OpenWhatItIsAsync);
         EditDataCommand = new RelayCommandAsync(EditDataAsync);
         ViewStructureCommand = new RelayCommandAsync(ViewStructureAsync);
         ViewDefinitionCommand = new RelayCommandAsync(ViewDefinitionAsync);
@@ -254,6 +255,49 @@ private async Task EditDataAsync()
         Logger.LogInformation("Edit data for table {TableName} in {Connection}", tableName, session.DisplayName);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// What a double click opens: the thing the node IS.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// <para>
+    /// One rule rather than three exceptions. A table IS its rows, so it opens the editor (WS-19); a
+    /// view IS the rows it selects, so it opens them; and the connection IS the database, so it opens
+    /// the tab that describes it - the same one <i>Database…</i> opens in the menu. Everything else
+    /// answers <see cref="CanOpenWhatItIs"/> with false and keeps the tree's own behaviour, which for
+    /// a folder is to open and close.
+    /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// It lives here rather than in the code-behind because the code-behind is the half no test can
+    /// reach, and this is a decision - which node opens what - rather than a gesture.
+    /// </para>
+    /// </remarks>
+    public bool CanOpenWhatItIs => SelectedNode?.NodeType switch
+    {
+        DatabaseNodeType.Table => CanEditData,
+        DatabaseNodeType.View => CanBrowseData,
+        DatabaseNodeType.Database => CanOpenDatabaseTab,
+        _ => false
+    };
+
+    /// <inheritdoc cref="CanOpenWhatItIs"/>
+    public async Task OpenWhatItIsAsync()
+    {
+        switch (SelectedNode?.NodeType)
+        {
+            case DatabaseNodeType.Table when CanEditData:
+                await EditDataAsync();
+                break;
+
+            case DatabaseNodeType.View when CanBrowseData:
+                SelectTopRows(1000);
+                break;
+
+            case DatabaseNodeType.Database when CanOpenDatabaseTab:
+                await OpenDatabaseTabAsync();
+                break;
+        }
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Opens the storage tab of the selected connection (WS-54).
     /// </summary>
@@ -1451,6 +1495,9 @@ private void OnPropertyChangedInternal(object? sender, PropertyChangedEventArgs
 
     public ICommand OpenDatabaseTabCommand { get; private set; } = null!;
 
+    /// <summary>The double click, which opens the thing the node is.</summary>
+    public ICommand OpenWhatItIsCommand { get; private set; } = null!;
+
     [Notify]
     public ICommand EditDataCommand { get; private set; } = null!;
 
diff --git a/Tools/OutWit.Database.Studio/Views/DatabaseExplorer.axaml.cs b/Tools/OutWit.Database.Studio/Views/DatabaseExplorer.axaml.cs
index f93d3fd..91c6266 100644
--- a/Tools/OutWit.Database.Studio/Views/DatabaseExplorer.axaml.cs
+++ b/Tools/OutWit.Database.Studio/Views/DatabaseExplorer.axaml.cs
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ public DatabaseExplorer()
     #region Event Handlers
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// A double click opens the DATA of a table, not its structure (WS-19).
+    /// A double click opens the thing the node IS - a table's data rather than its structure
+    /// (WS-19), a view's rows, and a connection's own tab.
     ///
     /// It used to open the structure, with the data hidden in the context menu - while looking at the
     /// data is what people come to a database tool to do, by an order of magnitude. The structure is
@@ -116,10 +117,10 @@ public DatabaseExplorer()
     /// application's behaviour.
     /// </para>
     /// </summary>
-    private void OpenTheDataUnderThePointer(PointerPressedEventArgs e)
+    private void OpenWhatIsUnderThePointer(PointerPressedEventArgs e)
     {
         // The chevron is a control of its own, and two clicks on it are two toggles rather than a
-        // request for the data.
+        // request for what is in the row.
         if (PressedOnTheChevron(e))
             return;
 
@@ -133,19 +134,12 @@ private void OpenTheDataUnderThePointer(PointerPressedEventArgs e)
         // order the tree does its own work in.
         explorer.SelectedNode = node;
 
-        switch (node.NodeType)
-        {
-            case DatabaseNodeType.Table when explorer.CanEditData:
-                explorer.EditDataCommand.Execute(null);
-                break;
-
-            case DatabaseNodeType.View when explorer.CanBrowseData:
-                explorer.SelectTop1000Command.Execute(null);
-                break;
+        // WHAT is opened is the ViewModel's decision, not this handler's: a gesture belongs here, a
+        // rule does not, and a rule written here is a rule no test can read.
+        if (!explorer.CanOpenWhatItIs)
+            return;
 
-            default:
-                return;
-        }
+        explorer.OpenWhatItIsCommand.Execute(null);
 
         // The tap that follows this press will toggle the row. Remember what to put back.
         m_rowToLeaveAsItWas = item;
@@ -213,7 +207,7 @@ private void OnPointerPressed(object? sender, PointerPressedEventArgs e)
         }
 
         if (properties.IsLeftButtonPressed && e.ClickCount == 2)
-            OpenTheDataUnderThePointer(e);
+            OpenWhatIsUnderThePointer(e);
     }
 
     /// <summary>The row the pointer is over, if it is over one.</summary>