Rhenus Uses Gitora

It’s been a little over three months since we released Gitora 2.0 and the first success stories have already started to surface. Here is one of them:

Rhenus Logistics, the leading logistics company from Germany uses Gitora to manage their Oracle Database.

Problem

Rhenus IT uses both Java and PL/SQL to serve their users and customers. They have a team of about 10 PL/SQL developers. The team manages more than 20,000 database packages, views, functions, procedures, object types and triggers spread over 30+ database schemas.

Rhenus IT wanted to move to a continuous delivery environment in which they can be more agile and deliver solutions to the business faster. Managing the PL/SQL code was the hardest piece of the puzzle.

Solution

After experimenting with other solutions in the market, Rhenus decided to move forward with Gitora.

Gitora enabled Rhenus Developers to:

  • Use Git, the prominent open source version control system used by millions of developers.
  • Move their database code between development and various staging databases automatically.
  • Move code between source and target databases very fast because Gitora only executes differences between source and target databases, without comparing the code bases in both databases first (which can be very time consuming).
  • Enforce check-in, check-out of database objects at the database level.
  • Automate build process for the database code using Gitora API’s.
  • Implement an affordable continuous delivery solution compared to alternatives.

Michiel Arentsen, the System Architect at Rhenus who implemented the solution at Rhenus has started an excellent blog in which he writes about his Gitora implementation. We highly recommend you to check it out. Below are the list of blog posts he wrote which should be very useful to anyone who is currently implementing Gitora at his/her company:

Using Gitora in PL/SQL Developer dual or multi session mode

Automatically log in to Gitora when connecting to Oracle

A fast way to load your database objects to a Gitora repository

Automatically add new database objects to Gitora

Start Gitora as a Windows service

Gitora 2.1 is available with tagging support

We are happy to announce that Gitora 2.1 is available for download. Along with a few bug fixes, Gitora 2.1 enables PL/SQL developers to use Git Tags to label any commit point in the Git repository.

Tags can be used for a variety of use cases but the most common one is to label a Commit ID for specific versions of the code base such as tagging a specific commit with the label “Version 2.0”.

It is very easy to create tags in Gitora. Simply, go to the local commands menu, select “Create Tag” menu item under “Tags”.

gitora-tags-menu

 

A dialog shows up.

Create Tag Dialog

Enter the name of your tag (no spaces). Enter the commit ID you’d like to attach it to. If you’d like to attach your tag to the HEAD i.e. the most recent commit in the current branch, leave the Commit ID field empty. You may also use a branch name instead of an actual Commit ID.

Click OK to create the tag. If the tag is attached to a commit visible in the Gitora repository browser, it will show up in the Gitora Application.

Gitora Repository Browser

To delete a tag, select the Delete a Tag menu item under the Tags menu, enter the name of the Tag you’d like to delete and click OK.

Tags are available in Gitora 2.1 Professional Edition. Enjoy! 🙂

Kind Regards,
The Gitora  Team