This presentation talked about Gitora, the version control tool for PL/SQL developers.

1. Version Control for PL/SQL

2. • About the Company
• What is the problem?
• How does Gitora help?
• Demo!!
• How does Gitora work?

3. About Gerger
Gitora
Tool to manage your PL/SQL code base with Git. www.gitora.com
Formspider
Application development framework for Oracle PL/SQL developers. First
Class Web and Mobile Applications with only PL/SQL as the programming
language. www.theformspider.com
We help Oracle customers catch up to modern technology.
Hundreds of customers in 30+ countries. Offices in
California, US and Istanbul, Turkey.
yalim.gerger@gerger.co

4. (Formerly ING Insurance).
Turkish Telco.
Germany
US. Global manufacturer of
equipment used in product
assembly.
Argentina.
Government of Rio
Negro. Forms
Modernisation.
United Kingdom Netherlands
US Fortune 5 Company

5. Lithuania
Italy
Greece
Germany
Italy
Peru. Financial
Systems
Russia. Metkombank
Russia
Azerbaijan.
Core Banking
Czech Republic .Logistics ERP

6. Every team created its own “system” that sort of kind of works
until it doesn’t.
Version Control is a difficult topic to talk about in the PL/SQL
Community.
Common version control tools are not available to PL/SQL
developers.
Lack of proper version control is one of the top reasons IT
shops avoid coding with PL/SQL.

7. We can’t work as productively as other developers.
We can’t deploy as fast as other developers.
We can’t respond to changes in business as quickly as other
developers.
Moving code is more error prone.
We can’t work together like other developer do.
We loose code more often.
It is harder for us to test our code automatically.

8. Apply common version control commands such as merge,
branch, reset to the code in the database. (The PL/SQL in the
DB changes automatically.)
Gitora 2.0 enables you to:
Commit changes to PL/SQL objects to Git.
Lock PL/SQL objects in the database (and still continue
using your favourite PL/SQL editor.)
Move your changes between databases automatically.
Manage packages, functions, procedures, views, triggers,
synonyms and object types in Git

9. Customer SpotlightSuccess Story:
Manages over 20,000 database objects
Rhenus Logistics, leading logistics service company from
Germany, uses Gitora.
Database objects are spread over 30+ schemas
System Architect/Team Lead Michiel Arentsen
blogs about Gitora at:
http://michielarentsen.blogspot.com/

10. Implementing version control with Gitora is the least
risky, most beneficial and the most cost effective way to
improve your teams productivity.
Risk: What’s the worst that can happen?
Benefits: Up to 10x productivity. Up to 95% fewer errors
during deployment.
Cost: 169 per developer

11. Traditional PL/SQL Development
Queued access
Blocking
Interrupting
DEV
RELEASE
TEST
INTEGRATION
QA
Manual deployment
USER ACCEPTANCE PREPROD PROD
Intermingled projects, features, hot fixes
Practically impossible to branch, merge
Developers are expected to follow version management rules manually.
Version control repo is a last resort back up
or any other version control system
1..n database servers
Manual
No automated testing

12. PL/SQL Development with Gitora Step 1 (One Repository)
Queued access
Blocking
Interrupting
DEV
Automatic deployment
USER ACCEPTANCE
HOTFIX
PREPROD PROD
Intermingled projects, features
Basic branching and merging is possible for hot fixes
Version control rules are enforced at the DB level and managed by a release manager.
Source code is in Gitora
Automatic Script
Generation with Gitora
Person responsible for releases
(manages all code in all Database Instances)
RELEASE
TEST
INTEGRATION
QA
Development on DEV
only. On some other DB’s
bug fixes may be allowed.
Faster hot fixes Better automatic testing

13. PL/SQL Development Step 2 with Gitora (One Repository)
Fewer Queues
Less Blocking
Less interruption
DEV1
Automatic deployment
PROD
Less intermingled projects, features
Basic branching and merging is possible
Version control rules are enforced at the DB level and managed by a release manager.
Source code is in Gitora
Automatic DDL Script
Generation with Gitora
Person responsible of releases
(manages all code in all Database Instances)
RELEASE
TEST
HOTFIX
INTEGRATION
QA
USER ACCEPTANCE
PREPROD
Hot fixes delivered faster
DEV2
N DEV servers
DEV1, DEV2,
DEV3,…DEVN
Better automatic testing
Development on DEV only. On
some other DB’s bug fixes
may be allowed.

14. PL/SQL Development Step 3 with Gitora: Implement Any Git Workflow (One Repository)
No Queues
No Blocking
No Interruptions
Automatic deployment
PROD
No blocking between projects, features
Branching and merging is possible
Version control rules are enforced at the DB level and managed by a release manager.
Source code is in Gitora
Automatic DDL Script
Generation with Gitora
Person responsible of releases
(manages all code in all Database Instances)
RELEASE
TEST
HOTFIX
INTEGRATION
QA
USER ACCEPTANCE
PREPROD
Faster hot fixes
Project Server [1..N]
RELEASE
TEST
INTEGRATION
QA
Every developer works in a
private environment.
Each private environment
can be switched to a
branch.
Great automated testing

15. How does Gitora work?
Edit PL/SQL Objects as usual in your favorite editor.
Log in to Gitora in your editor (can be done automatically in most cases).
Use Gitora API’s or Gitora GUI to perform version control tasks.
A database trigger listens to DDL events.
Version control commands update the database.
Only executes what’s changes in the DB. (Very fast!)
Gitora consists of a DB schema and some Java.

16. Show, Don’t Tell

17. Demo Setup (One Repository)
Fewer Queues
Less Blocking
Less interruption
DEV1
Automatic deployment
Less intermingled projects, features
Basic branching and merging is possible
Version control rules are enforced at the DB level and managed by a release manager.
Source code is in Gitora
Person responsible of releases
(manages all code in all Database Instances)
PREPROD
Hot fixes delivered faster
DEV2
Better automatic testing
This can be any intermediate
server between PROD and DEV