User Connections will soon replace Integrations
To continue using Push to git functionality, each user will have to configure their git integration in User Connections and provide their own personal access token. This functionality will no longer be limited to admins.
Enterprise-only feature.
The feature is only available to users with Account Admin privileges.
Once the integration has been configured, see the related article on using this feature and the various ways of generating the files themselves.
To enable version control through the Azure DevOps repository, you will need to create a Personal Access Token and link it with SqlDBM using the steps below.
Please make sure to initialize your repository by creating at least one file in the main branch (Readme.md for example).
1 . Go to Azure DevOps. Create or choose an organization.
2. Create a Personal Access Token.
Go to: User settings → Personal Access Tokens.
Once created, make sure to copy the above token. Azure doesn't store it, and you will not be able to see it again.
Token must have read & write permissions (see screenshot) or full access.
If you want to create pull requests while pushing, there should be no restrictions on creating a pull request for the user who created the token.
Note the expiration period. When it expires, the token will no longer be valid, and the integration will break.
3. Open the SqlDBM "Integrations" page in a different browser tab.
4. Select the "Azure DevOps" option.
5. Enter your token in the "Personal Access Token" field.
6. Open Azure DevOps again and create and initialize a repository.
You can initialize a repository from the Repository page.
Copy the link
7. Open SqlDBM "Integrations" with the specified token.
8. Select a project.
9. Specify the repository URL.
10. Select users who will have push permissions: modelers or project owner only.
11. Unmark the checkbox if you don't need to create pull requests.
12. Click Connect with Azure DevOps button.
13. Done.
Notice, you can add links only to those repositories that are related to the organization under the specified Personal Acess Token.
Project users will now see a "Push to Azure" button on the Forward engineering page. It will become active after generating DDL through Create or Alter scripts.
The same behavior in the DataOps page (alter script popup).
After a successful push request, find your script in the repository files:
Files -> Commits - there should be a commit with your SQL script.
Otherwise, if you selected the 'Create Pull Request' option in the azure integration page, go to:
Pull Request to master/main branch.
