1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising: obtaining, at a database application, a selection of one or more database metadata items from a user device, wherein each metadata item includes human-intelligible content and wherein each metadata item identifies an associated database object contained in a database; identifying, based at least partially on the database objects associated with the selected one or more metadata items, one or more predefined database views of the database application; registering the identified one or more predefined database views; monitoring whether the one or more predefined database views are updated after the registering operation; and triggering pushing of an update notification to the user device in response to a monitored update of the one or more predefined database views.