Editing a database query

You can edit the database query when you want to query different data from the database or if you want to query the data from a different database.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Ensured that you are assigned a role as a Project Owner or Tester in the project. See Managing access to the server projects.
Created at least one database query. See Creating a database query.

About this task

When you want to modify 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 modify 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

Log in to Test Hub.

The team space that contains your project is displayed.
Click Active projects > My projects > project_name to open the project that contains the test assets.

The Overview page of the project is displayed.
Click Author > Data.

The Data page and the Data navigator panel are displayed.
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.
Navigate to the logical folder Datasets in the Data navigator and select the database query that you want to delete.

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

The database query is displayed on the Data page.
Click Edit.

Alternatively, navigate to the logical folder Datasets in the Data navigator panel, right click the database query that you want to edit, and then click Edit.
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 Use an existing edit branch.
  2. Select an Edit branch from the Select branch list if Edit branches already exist in the selected branch of the repository.
    
    Note: A warning message is displayed if the Edit branch, which you selected, is behind the source branch. To update the selected edit branch and maintain synchronization with the source branch, you can select the Update branch option when switching checkbox.
  3. Click Ok.
- Perform the following steps to create the Edit branch:
  1. Select Create new edit branch.
  2. Enter a name for the Edit branch in the Branch Name field.
  3. Click Save.
Perform the following steps on the Data page to select a different table or query the different data from the same database or different database:
1. Select a different table, modify the query, or different connection.
2. Click View to switch between the Visual and Code view.
  
  Note: The default view is Visual view. In the Code view you can type the query to get data from the database.
3. Click the Preview icon to view the queried data from the database in tabular format in the bottom window.
4. Click the Save icon to save the queried data from the database.

Results

You have edited 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.