Deleting a database query

You can delete a database query when it is no longer required.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

About this task

When you want to delete any database query, you must have an Edit branch. You can create the Edit branch during the creation of the database query. All your dataset resides in the Edit branch until you publish or discard the changes.

After you delete the database query, you can either publish your changes to a remote Git repository or you can discard the changes made to the database query. The Edit branch automatically disappears from the Branch list as well as from the remote Git repository and sets the global branch to the previously selected branch in the following conditions:

  • When you publish changes to the remote Git repository.

  • When you discard the changes made in the dataset.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Test Hub.

    The team space that contains your project is displayed.

  2. Click Active projects > My projects > project_name to open the project that contains the test assets.

    The Overview page of the project is displayed.

  3. Click Author > Data.

    The Data page and the Data navigator panel are displayed.

  4. Select the branch in the project repository from the Branch list.

    The assets and resources in the selected branch are displayed in the Data navigator panel.

  5. Navigate to the logical folder Datasets in the Data navigator and right click the database query that you want to delete, and then click Delete.

    The name of the database query is suffixed with the .dtd.yaml file extension.

  6. Select your action to either select an existing Edit branch or create an Edit branch:
    • Perform the following steps to select an existing Edit branch:
      1. Select an Edit branch from the Select branch list if Edit branches already exist in the selected branch of the repository.
      2. Click Ok.
    • Perform the following steps to create the Edit branch:
      1. Select Create new branch.
      2. Enter a name for the Edit branch.
      3. Click Save.
    The Delete database query dialog is displayed.
  7. Click Delete to confirm the deletion.
    Alternatively, you can select the checkbox and add comments in the Description of change field. You can then click Delete and Publish to delete the database query and publish all of the changes in the edit branch.
    A message is displayed that confirms database query is deleted.

Results

You have deleted a database query in your project.

What to do next

You can publish the database query to the Git repository so that other members of the project can use the database query. See Publishing changes in an Edit branch.