Month: March 2021

Gitora 5 Enterprise enables you to reserve database objects so that they can be edited by authorized users only.

To achieve this, in the Gitora web app, right click the database object you’d like to reserve and click the Reserve menu option.

The Manage Object Reservation dialog shows up. In the dialog select the users you’d like to reserve the object for and click the Done button.

Once an object is reserved for a user (or users) only those users can edit it.

Conversely, users can be excluded from editing a database object.

To achieve this, right click on the database object and click the Exclude menu option.

The Manage User Exclusion dialog shows up.

Add the users that you’d like to restrict from changing this object and click the Done button.

From this moment on, the selected users cannot edit the database object.

Database developers and DBA’s have many scripts that they use for various purposes such as performance monitoring, migration, software upgrades and database maintanance.

There is often no good way to manage these scripts. DBA’s, developers end up emailing them to each other. The lack of good management and communication around scripts causes human mistakes during database upgrades and maintanance.

Gitora 5.1 Enterprise Edition introduces a new feature called Scripts. In Gitora 5.1, each Gitora repo has a separete section where you can manage your database scripts with the power of git.

Gitora scripts feature provides a single source of truth to DBA’s and developers.

Simply create any folder hierarchy you want and add your scripts to Gitora.

Git will store the entire version history of your scripts. You can view changes in your scripts over time. Find out who changed what and when.

You can also restrict who can edit the scripts.

When you pull a repo from one database to another, the scripts will move with the repo to the target database. This ensures that you always move the right version of a script to the target database, preventing emails, IM messages and many other needless back and forth between developers and DBA’s.