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Handling Multiple Schemas with Liquibase

Liquibase offers flexibility whether deploying changes to a single schema or multiple schemas. Depending on the database platform, there could even be a use case for deploying

November 29, 2022

Limited Holiday Offer: Free Liquibase Certified Associate Exam ($150 value)

Upskilling yourself over the holidays in preparation to hit the ground running in 2023? Join the 1400+ certified Liquibase users by becoming a Liquibase expert for yourself,

November 17, 2022

Announcing the new release of Liquibase GitHub Actions

Today, we’re happy to announce the release of our new version of Liquibase Github Actions! The Origin Story Back in October 2020, Liquibase held a Hackathon.

November 15, 2022

October 2022 Community Recap

November 4, 2022 "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." - L.M. Montgomery Our Liquibase Community was very active in October! We added 262 new

Introducing Amazon S3 Access on Liquibase Pro

As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, Liquibase has a strong history of supporting the AWS Cloud and its tools. Currently, Liquibase Pro integrates with the AWS Cloud to manage

Introducing Flows in Liquibase Pro

We’re excited to announce that Liquibase Pro users now have access to Flows, modular command files (YAML) that run within the CI/CD pipeline. Flows add an additional way of

November 8, 2022

September 2022 Community Recap

September was filled with some really great things here at Liquibase. Let's take a look at what our Community focused on in the last month. Latest

This is a Story about Control: context-filter, label-filter

LIQUIBASE RELEASE: VERSION 4.16.0 Suggested soundtrack: Control Janet Jackson* TL;DR If you are already using Contexts and Labels successfully, keep calm and Database

September 9, 2022

August 2022 Community Recap

Moving past the summer of 2022 and into autumn, it’s hard to believe it’s already September! Let’s take a look at everything that happened in the Liquibase Community last

September 7, 2022

Liquibase Recognized with All Three “Best of” Awards by TrustRadius

Liquibase is proud to be recognized by TrustRadius with awards for Best Relationship, Best Feature Set, and Best Value for Price in the Database DevOps Software

August 3, 2022

July 2022 Community Recap

Moving through the summer of 2022, it’s hard to believe it’s already August! Let’s take a look at everything that happened at Liquibase last month. Latest

August 2, 2022

Two .jars beat as one

RELEASE: VERSION 4.14.0 Suggested soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMX1cPLBfAE TL;DR We have split liquibase.jar into liquibase-core.jar (open source only)

July 25, 2022

June 2022 Community Recap

June was a busy month for the Community team at Liquibase. We attended cdCON as a Gold Sponsor, held in Austin, Texas, US on June 6 & 7, hosted by The Linux Foundation. It

July 5, 2022

May 2022 Community Recap

May has flown by along with the birds returning for the warmer weather. At the monthly Community Meetup, Feature Flags/Management was announced for Liquibase Labs, and

One month of 2022 down, 11 more to go! A new month (and year!) bring new releases and exciting roadmap plans. Let's dive into the updates. Latest Releases Liquibase 4.7.0

February 4, 2022

Reclaiming Imposter Syndrome

I am pretty much an outsider no matter where I go. In my running group, I exist in the space between the fast groups and the back-of-the-packers. I have two older brothers and am

February 4, 2022

Liquibase Successfully Completes SOC 2 Type 2 Certification

The Liquibase Hub platform meets security, availability, and confidentiality standards set by AICPA AUSTIN, TX - February 2, 2022 — Liquibase, the company behind the most

February 2, 2022

Liquibase Data is Git for Databases

Git is an amazing tool for collaboration — developers can work together to build better software faster. However, the usual Git workflow neglects the database. With Liquibase

January 21, 2022

The Benefits of Using Liquibase Over a Custom Built Database Tool

It’s a universal pain that every software team knows well — updating database code comes with risks and it tends to take a lot more time to release database changes than app

January 12, 2022

A Year in Review: Liquibase Community 2021

In 2021, we celebrated an epic milestone — 15 years of Liquibase! What began in 2006 as a small personal side project by Nathan Voxland has now been downloaded over 75 million

January 7, 2022

Engineering

Log4J2 Vulnerability Does Not Affect Liquibase

On Friday, December 10th, news started breaking about a new 0-day exploit on the popular log4j2 Java logging library. This exploit can allow an attacker to remotely execute code

December 14, 2021

November Community Recap

Happy holidays to everyone celebrating during this season! It's hard to imagine we're nearing the end of 2021 already. I'll save the year-end recap for next month, so without

December 7, 2021

Database DevOps is Difficult^2 — The Journey that Brought Me to Liquibase

Prior to my first official 100% tech job, I was always the technical person in a non-technical department. I spent a lot of time generating, recording, manipulating, and

November 22, 2021

Detecting Database Changes to Improve Security & Quality

Verifying that the current state of a database matches the expected state is a fundamental dimension of database change management. It’s important to have a well-defined

November 18, 2021

Keeping Test Data Management in Sync with Database Development

The key to smooth application delivery is aligning the processes of managing new changes to a pipeline of databases and ensuring that the test environments have appropriate

November 15, 2021

Research Shows Database Change Management is a Key Indicator for DevOps Success

Elite DevOps Performers are 3.4 Times More Likely to Incorporate Database Change Management Into Their Process AUSTIN, Texas – November 10, 2021 – Liquibase, the company

November 10, 2021

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October Community Recap

Oh, how I love October. A month filled with pumpkin-spiced everything, excessive amounts of Halloween candy, and the best of all, memes of skeletons doing human-like things.

November 3, 2021

Understanding When to Use Contexts vs. Labels

Liquibase labels and contexts allow you to choose a subset of changesets to execute at runtime, enabling many different use cases. Where they differ is deciding who has the power

October 27, 2021

Celebrating the 1000th Course Completion for Liquibase University

The number 1000 represents new beginnings and infinite potential. In the spirit of celebrating the milestones we’ve hit since Liquibase University began and the plans we have

October 15, 2021

September Community Recap

"Hey Alexa, play September by Earth, Wind & Fire." Now that I have the mood set with a favorite (and totally relevant!) song, it's time to jump into the many exciting

October 4, 2021

Making Database Changes Faster & Safer with Quality Checks

English inventor Sir George Cayley made the earliest recorded proposal for a seatbelt in the mid 19th century. There was even a patent submission for seatbelts in the late 1800s

September 30, 2021

Liquibase Introduces Quality Checks for Database Changes

On-Demand Checks Validate Consistency Across Database Code, Enabling a Faster & More Secure CI/CD Process for Millions of Development Teams AUSTIN, TX – September 29,

September 29, 2021

6 Key Takeaways from DORA’s 2021 State of DevOps Report

The 2021 State of DevOps Report is now available! The full report is always worth a read, but if you don’t have time to dive into the data, we’ve got you covered. Liquibase

September 23, 2021

Liquibase is SOC2 Compliant! Here’s How We Got There

For over 15 years, Liquibase has supported teams behind their own firewalls, VPCs, and other secured infrastructure. Recently, Liquibase released a new platform — Liquibase

September 14, 2021

August Community Recap

See you later, summer! We've made it over halfway through 2021, yet there's much to look forward to before the year comes to an end. Liquibase 4.4.3 is now

September 6, 2021

Liquibase Successfully Completes SOC 2 Type 1 Certification of SaaS Platform

Commitment to security grows as more companies leverage Liquibase and the Liquibase Hub platform to manage database deployments AUSTIN, TX – August 31, 2021 — Liquibase,

August 31, 2021

A Speedy, Secure Database Developer Flow Using GitLab Pipelines & Liquibase

GitLab pipelines allow users to manage CI/CD pipelines along with predefined environment variables with a simple interface. Happily, GitLab pipelines work perfectly with

August 27, 2021

New Liquibase Package Manager Utility

Any time you install Liquibase, you also need to install the JDBC driver for your database. If you’re new to Liquibase (or you need to install it on a new system), this can be

August 17, 2021

Easily Manage Yugabyte Database Schema Changes with Liquibase

Nowadays, we have a lot of choices for where and how we run our databases. The thing is, no matter where or how we are running the database, we will always have to manage

August 12, 2021

Using DBeaver & Liquibase to Easily Compare Databases in Your CI/CD Flow

Liquibase and DBeaver have teamed up to give you the most advanced database comparison functions so you can stay ahead of the automation game making your life

August 9, 2021

July Community Recap

Happy July and happy Summer Olympics! It's inspiring (and quite fun) to watch the world's best athletes compete against one another. Whether it's synchronized diving or

August 2, 2021

Businesses that Choose to Win

2020. Was your response to the most disruptive year, arguably in a lifetime, commensurately disruptive? Or were you satisfied with incremental adjustments? Across

July 13, 2021

Liquibase Environment Variables: It’s now easier and safer to control your deployments

Teams can now set where, when, and how Liquibase deploys database changes at the environment level. You no longer need to manage separate liquibase.properties files for different

July 8, 2021

June Community Recap

"DevOps" wasn't even a word when Liquibase launched 15 years ago on June 16, 2006 . In case the math doesn't shock you like it does me, if Liquibase was a teenager here in the

June 30, 2021

Liquibase Celebrates 15 Years of Improving Database Release Quality & Speed

AUSTIN, TX - June 16, 2021 — Liquibase, the company behind the most powerful community-led database change management solution, is celebrating 15 years of the Liquibase open

June 16, 2021

Liquibase Recognized by DBTA in the Top 100 Companies That Matter Most in Data

Today, Database Trends & Applications announced Liquibase is on their Top 100 list: The Companies That Matter Most in Data. “The past 15 months have provided an object

June 10, 2021

May Community Recap

Happy summer's eve! The days are getting longer, the temps are rising and the team at Liquibase is giddy to celebrate 15 glorious years of our open source community! No matter

June 3, 2021

Liquibase Expands Access to Database DevOps

Liquibase adds support for NoSQL database platforms & more relational databases for teams implementing database DevOps AUSTIN, TX - May 25, 2021 — Liquibase, the company

May 25, 2021

Liquibase Congratulates Bancolombia for Database DevOps Innovation Award Recognition

Bancolombia recognized as innovative leader in approach to DevOps AUSTIN, TX - May 19, 2021 — Liquibase, the company behind the most powerful community-led database change

May 19, 2021

Easily Import Data into your Database

We recently saw a tweet looking for an easy way to import data into a database. Many Liquibase users may not know that Liquibase can easily help with

May 7, 2021

Database Migrations for Java Applications

Liquibase offers a powerful open source database migration tool for Java apps. It brings structure and confidence to developers and DBAs that need to easily create and track

May 4, 2021

April Community Recap

Hey there, May! You sneaked up on us. I haven't even had a chance to dust off my lightsaber or think of a witty Star Wars meme for May 4th. (If you've got a good meme, you could

May 3, 2021

March Community Recap

Warm greetings, spring! Here in Texas, the bluebonnets are in full bloom, the days feel longer and there’s an overwhelming desire to spend every minute of your day outside.

April 8, 2021

Start Here: Preparing for Database Automation with Liquibase

If you’re wondering where to start with automating your database process, you’re not alone. Most teams are delivering database changes manually or with some limited

March 29, 2021

Liquibase 4.3.2 Released

This release includes community-contributed pull requests, bug fixes, and enhancements. Download Liquibase v4.3.2 What's in this release Liquibase users will enjoy

March 24, 2021

Easy Blue-Green Deployments with Liquibase

Every release manager's dream is to easily achieve continuous delivery with zero downtime. Blue-green deployments are a popular technique teams use to make it a reality. What

March 22, 2021

Supercharge Container Deployments with JFrog and Liquibase

In the bad old days, we had to configure Java Application Servers, manage dependencies, and deal with operating systems. We don’t have to do that anymore with containers! Using

March 12, 2021

February Community Recap

Oh, February! A mix of cheesy Valentine’s tweets (this one is extra cringey), an unprecedented snowstorm (shout out to Texans), and an epic, bug-smashing release! The shortest

March 11, 2021

Taking the Plunge for SAFE

One of my favorite things about being a Liquibaser is the opportunity to participate in our many carefully crafted, creative traditions. Some are goofy, some are challenging, and

Liquibase Offers Insight Into Database Changes & Releases With Free SaaS Dashboard

All users can organize, monitor, and view Liquibase database change activity in real-time, increasing team collaboration and deployment success AUSTIN, Texas, November 17,

November 17, 2020

Liquibase 4.2 Released

This major release offers significant enhancements and bug fixes for both Liquibase Community and Pro users and supports further Liquibase Hub integration. What's in this

November 13, 2020

How to Set Up Liquibase in Spinnaker

We’ve been having a lot of fun with CICD integrations at Liquibase. We’ve recently released our official GitHub Action and an example for Travis CI. It’s past time to do

November 3, 2020

Running Liquibase in Travis CI

We’re always looking for ways to give back to the Liquibase Community. We’re also big on experimenting and having fun. Combining all of that in an internal Liquibase

November 2, 2020

Using Liquibase in Kubernetes

Embedding Liquibase into the startup process of an application is a very common pattern for good reason. Once you set up Liquibase to deploy on app startup, your database state

October 29, 2020

Creating Functional Tests for Liquibase Extensions

At Liquibase, we use two types of tests to ensure Liquibase works with different types of databases: Integration and Functional. Integration tests evaluate whether Liquibase is

October 26, 2020

Introducing the Official Liquibase GitHub Action Plugin

In honor of Hacktoberfest, Liquibase hosted a day-long internal Hackathon. My team’s challenge: make it easier to use Liquibase in Continuous Integration and Continuous

October 22, 2020

Get Up and Running with Liquibase and Apache Cassandra

There is a lot of activity around Liquibase Extensions and new database platforms. (A direct result of our Liquibase Labs initiative.) Since there is so much activity going on

October 20, 2020

Getting Started with Liquibase Pro

Trying new things can be scary. The Liquibase community team definitely doesn't want trying out Liquibase Pro features to be anything but awesome, so we've outlined all the steps

October 14, 2020

Instant Liquibase Workflows with GitHub Actions

When you’re learning or evaluating new software, it’s not always easy or possible to install the software locally on your laptop. One way to address the problem is to have

October 13, 2020

Liquibase 3.10.3 & 4.1.1 Released

Liquibase 3.10.3 and 4.1.1 are now available. Both of these releases are dedicated to fixing bugs. Here’s a closer look at what fixes are included. 3.10.3 bugfix

October 12, 2020

How Big Investments in Tech Can Lead to Small Returns

“Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” should be required reading for all technology leaders. The book is about Billy Beane, GM for the Oakland A’s, and his

October 12, 2020

New Test Automation Framework for Liquibase

Our vision at Liquibase is to be the easiest, safest, and most powerful community-led database change management solution. In order to make this a reality for a large community

October 6, 2020

Liquibase 4.1 Released

Liquibase 4.1 is now available. Here’s a closer look at what's included in the latest release. Liquibase v4.1 connects local Liquibase operations to Liquibase Hub This

October 4, 2020

Hacktoberfest 2020: Contribute to Liquibase

As hard as it is to believe, it’s almost October. That means Hacktoberfest will begin soon. We expect this year’s celebration of open source to be even more amazing than last

September 30, 2020

New Liquibase Runner Jenkins Plugin

Liquibase provides continuous integration and continuous delivery for your database. By integrating Liquibase with Jenkins, you can achieve full-stack CI/CD for your application.

September 28, 2020

Using SQL*Plus with Liquibase

If you maintain an Oracle database, you understand the importance of being able to easily apply complex stored procedures. In the same vein, anyone who maintains a CI/CD pipeline

September 28, 2020

3 Solutions for Database Drift

Database deployments should be smooth and painless. Even in 2020, they often are not. Sometimes, the culprit is database drift. What is database drift? Database drift (or

September 23, 2020

Making RDS Database Versioning & Instrumentation Easy with Liquibase & CloudFormation

Reposted with permission from Martin Whittington, Head of Platform @oddschecker. 1. CloudFormation Stack Create/Update process starts. 2. RDS instance is created/updated. 3.

September 4, 2020

Measuring Database CI/CD Pipeline Performance

This is the twelfth post and final post in a series we’re calling CI/CD:DB. Read from the beginning. This blog series has described various aspects of defining a CI/CD

“Wait! You’re saying strangers will be touching the code?” Just the thought of a developer I’ve never met changing code I’m responsible for testing was a

August 11, 2020

Sandbox Databases

This is the eigth post in a series we’re calling CI/CD:DB. Read from the beginning. To this point, we have largely focused on processing database changes once they have

August 6, 2020

The Magic of Using XML Changelogs in Liquibase

There are so many scenarios where using XML changelogs can be extremely useful. Yes, you can use plain old SQL. And yes, sometimes it seems like formatted SQL changelogs are an

August 5, 2020

Hackathons are Not Just for Software Developers

You probably think of a Hackathon as a competition involving highly technical domain experts collaborating on a software project that will be completed in a matter of hours or

August 5, 2020

5 Challenges for DBAs Making Database Changes

There is no doubt that CICD and DevOps are here to stay. Companies know that they need to automate the software release process. Liquibase co-founder and CTO, Robert Reeves, even

August 4, 2020

Automatically Manage Permissions and Synonyms Using Liquibase

There are situations where grants or synonyms need to be created for all objects that meet certain criteria, one example is when they belong to a specific schema. You could rely

August 3, 2020

6 Reasons to Use Liquibase with Docker

Updated January 11, 2022 Docker is super awesome for running machines that were previously used via virtual machines — but each virtual machine requires a separate copy of

July 29, 2020

Trustworthy Database Environments

This is the seventh post in a series we’re calling CI/CD:DB. Read from the beginning. In Part 6 of this blog series, we dealt with ensuring a consistent process for

July 29, 2020

Liquibase 3.10.2 Released

We are excited to announce the penultimate 3.x Liquibase release in Liquibase 3.10.2, available now! Community contributions andbug fixes This release merges many

July 27, 2020

A Journey from Enterprise to Open Source

We started Datical with a simple goal: make Liquibase easily adoptable by large enterprises. Long story short, we achieved that goal. After seven years of finding our way and

July 27, 2020

Comparing Two States of the Same Database Schema

Using Liquibase diff commands gives you a powerful way to compare two database schema states. Diff commands are handy when you need to examine an unexpected change.

July 27, 2020

Getting Started: Using Liquibase with Azure Postgres

I recently had to set Liquibase up to do some work on Azure Postgres. Both Azure and Postgres have seen an uptick in popularity and the combination works really well.

July 24, 2020

Validating Database Rollbacks

Learn how to pre-validate your Liquibase deployment and have a rollback ready — just in case you need it. Have you ever needed to rollback a database change after a

July 24, 2020

Tips for Getting Your Liquibase Fundamentals Certification

Are you looking for an easy bit of professional development during the pandemic? If you work in DevOps, I think our Liquibase Fundamentals certification is time well spent.

July 22, 2020

Reliable and Predictable Database Deployments

This is the sixth post in a series we’re calling CI/CD:DB. Read from the beginning. In Part 5, we wrapped our discussion of bringing Continuous Integration (CI) to

July 20, 2020

Bringing Liquibase Community Contributions Together

Communities are pretty dang cool and powerful. People from all over the world with different perspectives come together to connect and break bread over a cause they believe in, a

July 16, 2020

Liquibase 4.0 Released

We are excited to announce that Liquibase 4.0 is now available. This is the first semantic versioning number upgrade in a long time. Liquibase 4.0 is the result of thousands

July 15, 2020

Ensuring Quality Database Changes

This is the fifth post in a series we’re calling CI/CD:DB. Read from the beginning. In part 3 and part 4 of this series, we talked about defining batches of changes and

July 15, 2020

If it sounds too good to be true…

Everyone knows the ending of this timeless adage because of its timeless validity. There are always costs that may not be evident when considering benefits. And thus our natural

July 14, 2020

Liquibase Announces Liquibase University: Training for the World’s Most Powerful Database Change Solution

New self-paced learning option shows developers and DBAs how to harness the power of Liquibase to spark collaboration and innovation amongst teams tackling database change

July 14, 2020

Liquibase 4.0 Beta 2 Released

You can now download Liquibase 4.0 Beta 2. Here’s an overview of what’s in this latest Beta release. Improvements and Bugfixes Here’s what’s new in this

July 2, 2020

Liquibase 3.10.1 Released

Liquibase 3.10.1 is now available. Here’s a closer look at what's included in the latest release. Community contributions for many, many bug fixes We've brought in so

July 2, 2020

Everything you need to know about Liquibase open source software development you can learn from She-Ra

Lately, I have been really into the She-Ra reboot on Netflix. It’s easy-to-watch and engaging. But more than that, it feels really familiar to me. See if you can follow me on

July 1, 2020

Automating Database Builds

This is the fourth post in a series we’re calling CI/CD:DB. Read from the beginning. In our previous blog, we defined our changes and how we will arrange and group

June 30, 2020

Batching Database Changes

This is the third post in a series we’re calling CI/CD:DB. Read from the beginning. In part 1 and part 2, we worked to understand the problems associated with bringing

Devs and DBAs (and many others) use Liquibase to track their database changes. Usually, this is done in SQL or XML (or JSON or YAML) over traditional JDBC connections. While this

June 15, 2020

Liquibase Usability Survey Results

We asked and you answered! THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the Liquibase Usability survey. Those who took the time to jot down their thoughts are stars in the Liquibase

June 11, 2020

Introduction to CI/CD for DB

This is the first post in a series we're calling CI/CD:DB. This post is the first in a series where we will talk about the steps required to bring databases into a Continuous

June 9, 2020

Introducing Liquibase Labs

Liquibase extensions allow developers to easily create support for all databases. With extensions for MongoDB, Snowflake, SAP HANA, and many more, developers across the world are

June 8, 2020

New Liquibase Forum is Live

We’re excited to share our new forum! Zoho had served us well for many years, but there were a lot of issues. New users would get 404s when trying to sign up and it just

Liquibase 3.8.9 is now available through Liquibase.org. We’re continuing to improve everyone’s experience with Liquibase by fixing some bugs and improving existing

April 6, 2020

Best Practices for Using Diffs

Database diffs are a great tool to have in your toolbox. They can provide a super-easy way to begin using Liquibase on existing projects. You can simply run the

April 3, 2020

Datical Database Deployment Console Filtering

Get More Visibility and Self-Service for your Database Deployments with DMC

It’s not unusual for teams to spend days determining the root cause of a database deployment error. It can be a lot like trying to find a needle in a haystack. When the team is

March 24, 2020

Liquibase 3.8.8 Released, Provides Minor Bug Fixes

Liquibase 3.8.8 is now available. We fixed a couple of minor bugs in this release. Bug Fixes For both Liquibase Community and Liquibase Pro users, the following bugs

March 19, 2020

Automation can help your business survive disruptions

Automation initiatives must continue It’s amazing how quickly things can change. COVID-19 has turned the world upside down in a matter of weeks. Schools are closed. Conferences

March 16, 2020

Datical Earns AWS Advanced Technology Partner Status with Proven Database CI/CD Solution

With a combined Datical and AWS solution, companies have the agility and speed to safely roll out functionality to customers just as fast as they can develop it. AUSTIN, Texas

March 10, 2020

Datical Achieves AWS Advanced Technical Partner Status

Big news! Datical is now an AWS Advanced Technical Partner. Here’s why it’s a big deal and how it helps customers both present and future. How to become an AWS Advanced

March 10, 2020

Feeling DevOps Tool Fatigue? Here’s the Cure

Release orchestration company XebiaLabs recently announced plans to merge with CollabNet VersionOne, a provider for agile planning and collaborative development. The new joint

In our most recent Liquibase community survey, we learned that many Liquibase users are interested in a feature that allows them to roll back a specific database change.

February 10, 2020

Recent Liquibase Articles, February 2020

Here are some articles and other interesting things written by the many people around the world that are using Liquibase. SQLcl : Automating Your SQL and PL/SQL Deployments

Liquibase 3.8.3 is now available. Here’s a closer look at what’s included in the latest release. Liquibase 3.8.3 Overview Improved Support for Liquibase-Maven Plugin

December 17, 2019

Recent Liquibase Articles, December 2019

Here are some recent mentions of Liquibase on other sites. Fear database changes? Get them under control with CI/CD Why you should be including database concerns in your

December 16, 2019

5 Ways to Fix a Bad Database Change in Liquibase

You’ve just run a liquibase update. Moments later, your stomach churns as you realize that there were some big mistakes in the changes you just deployed and your database

December 4, 2019

Liquibase 3.8.2 Released

Liquibase 3.8.2 is now available. Here’s a closer look at what’s included in the latest release. Snapshots and Reverse Engineering Expands to PostgreSQL and DB2 TL;DR:

November 26, 2019

Playbook for DevOps

“Change is the only constant.” - Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher Many times, the toughest part of DevOps is simply getting started. Before you even start running plays,

November 15, 2019

Liquibase 3.8.1 Released

Liquibase 3.8.1 is now available. Here’s a closer look at what’s included in the latest release. Liquibase bug fixes & doc updates Both Liquibase Community and

Database Design Best Practices

Behind every good application is good database design. At its simplest, a database holds data. The devil is in the details of how the data is written, stored, and retrieved. With

September 3, 2019

Liquibase 3.8.0 Released

Liquibase 3.8.0 is now available. Liquibase now comes in two modes: Liquibase CommunityLiquibase Pro The 3.8.0 release adds the ability to enter a license key for a

August 28, 2019

Now Every Team Can Include Databases in the CI/CD Pipeline

Most organizations are well versed in the benefits of tracking code with version control. Because of the complex nature of databases and the culture we’ve built around database

August 28, 2019

6 Ways to Remove Blockers for Continuous Database Deployment

Continuous database deployment isn't easy. The first step to tackling any problem is to see the problem. With databases, it’s difficult because there are a lot of problems that

August 13, 2019

Events

Catch Us at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019

We're looking forward to talking to DevOps and Jenkins enthusiasts in San Francisco at DevOps World | Jenkins World! Must-See Sessions There are over 150 breakout sessions and 16

August 9, 2019

Datical Announces Support for Liquibase™ 3.7, Furthering Ongoing Commitment to Open Source Community for Database Change

Additional Plans Include Strategic Partnerships with Database Vendors, Personnel Hires Dedicated Exclusively to Liquibase AUSTIN, Texas – August 8, 2019 – Datical,

August 8, 2019

Improving Community Support

It’s an exciting time for the Liquibase community. The latest release, 3.7, has over 350 commits from the community and from Datical. Datical has dedicated several engineers to

August 7, 2019

Our Ongoing Commitment to Support Open Source Database Change

Recently, Datical has dedicated several engineers to the Liquibase open source project which helped push the Liquibase 3.7 release with many important new features,

August 7, 2019

Database Change for Cloud-Native Applications

Most new applications are now born in the cloud and the cloud has changed data management forever. It’s easy to spin up new environments with the click of a button, allowing

August 2, 2019

What we learned from the 2018 Liquibase Community survey

Last year, we invited the Liquibase community to take a survey to help us understand how Liquibase is used and how we can improve. A small sample size from our community (a

July 23, 2019

Liquibase 3.7.0 Released

Liquibase 3.7.0 is now available. Version 3.7.0 is primarily a bugfix release, but there have been over 350 commits since 3.6.3, so TONS of good new things from both the

July 19, 2019

7 Tips for Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL

More companies are making the move from Oracle to PostgreSQL for three main reasons: the ever-increasing cost, the licensing complexity, and the increase in audit risk. Since

July 19, 2019

Supporting PostgreSQL Database Releases On-Premise and in the Cloud

Everyone loves PostgreSQL. Postgres is consistently on the most loved and most wanted database list. You can also see the ranking just keep trending up over time, thanks to our

July 11, 2019

Datical Adds Support for AWS Database Platforms, Enabling Enterprise Cloud Application Development and Migration

Leader in Database Release Automation Announces Expanded Platform Coverage for Amazon RDS for Oracle, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB Postgres

June 18, 2019

More Platforms and More Databases: Announcing Our New Release

This post was updated August 5, 2019 to reflect that our release is now generally available. We’re excited to announce our Liquibase Enterprise 2019.2.2 release, which

June 18, 2019

As Software Development Teams are Pressured to Move Faster, Database Teams Feel the Pain

Market analyst firms, like Morgan Stanley, are noticing something big happening. There is a surge in companies specializing in software development tools and services. If you’ve

June 10, 2019

Datical Announces Winners of Database DevOps Innovation Awards

Winners include American International Group (AIG), Bank of America, Colonial Life, Travelers Insurance, and Russell Webster of Zions Bancorporation AUSTIN, Texas – June 6,

June 6, 2019

Datical Named Leader in the SD Times 100 for Second Year in a Row

We're excited to announce that Datical has been chosen as a leader in the 2019 SD Times 100, Database and Database Management category, for the second year in a row. The award

June 4, 2019

Rolling Back Database Changes

How many times has your team had to rollback a database change in production? If your answer is greater than zero, there’s a problem. Database rollback functionality is

June 3, 2019

Inviting the Database Team to the DevOps Party

So, you use Git for app code check in. Check. You've already taken advantage of continuous integration and delivery thanks to Jenkins. Check. You're even using a tool like

May 31, 2019

Datical Announces Issuance of Patent for Database Change Management Simulator

Database Release Automation Leader’s New Patent Proactively Prevents Application Downtime and Security Vulnerabilities Related to Bad Database Changes AUSTIN, Texas

May 30, 2019

A Patented Approach to Database Change

Patents are an amazing thing we (as a country) got right. The brilliant thing about the concept of patents is if you tell everyone how you figured something out, you get an

May 24, 2019

Salesforce down: What you can learn from this outage

Everyone has bad days. Every company has been through some kind of outage due to a buggy database deployment. Even the best of the best, with highly trained staff, world-class

May 20, 2019

Updates to Liquibase Hibernate and HANA Extensions

We have reviewed and accepted pull requests for extensions that add and enhance support for Hibernate and HANA. Hibernate is one of the most popular Java ORMs and SAP HANA powers

Liquibase 3.6.2 is now available from liquibase.org/download and through the Maven repositories. Question or comments can be directed to

June 30, 2018

Datical Expands Leadership Team, Relocates Headquarters to Support Rapid Growth

Leader in Database Release Automation Adds CRO to Executive Team and Opens New Headquarters Location to Accommodate Continued Expansion AUSTIN, Texas – June, 7th

June 7, 2018

Creating a Database Continuous Integration Workflow with Datical and AWS

Why create a database continuous integration workflow? Enterprises are now realizing the need to make database code deployment as fast and easy as application release

Leader in Database Release Automation Continues Dramatic Growth AUSTIN, Texas – Jan. 18, 2018 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation

New application developer friendly plug-in makes it easy to take advantage of Datical’s database release automation capabilities directly from Jenkins JENKINS WORLD – SAN

August 30, 2017

RDBMS vs NoSQL: Picking the right tool for the job

When I’m working around my house, I carry my tools in a 5-gallon bucket. Before starting my job, I’ll place the tools and hardware I think I’ll need in the bucket and then

The Leader in Database Release Automation Continues Dramatic Growth Through Product Innovation, Customer Growth and Significant Company Momentum Austin, Texas – February

February 22, 2017

Making Database Changes a Tier One Artifact

Economic reality and technology are shortening business cycles. What this means for companies, new and established, is that the windows of opportunity for capitalizing on market

February 14, 2017

Database, Meet Digital Transformation. Digital Transformation, Meet Your Biggest Bottleneck

Over the past year, I’ve seen a shift in how we speak about delivering applications. More and more of us use the term “digital transformation” to describe the business

February 8, 2017

New Research Reveals Biggest Delays to Digital Transformation Initiatives

Deploying Database Changes Cited as the Top Constraint in Releasing Applications Austin, Texas – February 1st, 2017 –Datical, the leading provider of database release

February 1, 2017

New Research Data: The Biggest Delays to Digital Transformation Initiatives

Datical and CIO Magazine have released some research on what are the biggest delays Digital Transformation Initiatives. After looking over the report and underlying raw data,

January 31, 2017

Database Branching and Merging in a Git World

Git has radically changed our perspective on continuous delivery, branching and merging, on distributed development, and on the value of treating everything as code. Git users can

January 10, 2017

Your Status Quo is Status Stuck

Any IT professional can tell you that company brass rarely sees a need to increase IT budgets while systems are up-and-running. It is undeniable that in today’s business world,

December 15, 2016

Liquibase Hibernate Plugin 3.6 Released

After far too long, the Liquibase-Hibernate plugin has been updated to support Hibernate 5.x!! To use the new Hibernate 5 support, either download the

October 24, 2016

Datical and XebiaLabs Forge Software Integration to Shape The Evolution of Application Release Automation

Datical And Dell Present Devops.Com Webinar On Modernizing Database Development

Austin, Texas – May 10, 2016 – Datical, the leading provider of agile database automation solutions, and Dell will present a webinar in cooperation with DevOps.com on

Microservices architecture enables flexible architecture and speeds up your development process. But, often people are confused as to where to start. The obvious choice is to

Once you’ve created a database changelog file, what is the best way to run it? As always, it depends on what works best for you. There are three main ways to run

July 23, 2015

10 Benefits of DevOps for Enterprise IT

We ran across a quick read from Michael Schmidt, of Automic’s DevOps practice, who discusses ten benefits of adopting DevOps in an article on DevOps.com. Better

July 21, 2015

The Significant Benefits of Application Release Automation

In today’s application economy consumers want to be able to interact with their favorite brands when and where they want, on their device of choice. What this means for business

July 8, 2015

April 29, 2015

Capitalizing on Momentum, Datical Announces Additional Financing and Appoints Derek Hutson as President and CEO

Enterprise software industry veteran brings track record of success in managing companies through periods of rapid growth AUSTIN, Texas – April 23, 2015 – Datical,

April 23, 2015

5 DevOps Books You Should Read

“DevOps” the buzzword has been zipping around enterprise IT over the last few years. But for those who have only heard about it or the benefits it promises, it can be

All About Changeset Checksums

Updated October 8, 2021 In order to detect changes between what is currently in the changelog vs. what was actually run against the database, Liquibase stores a checksum with

March 24, 2009

Liquibase 1.9.1 Released

Liquibase 1.9.1 has been released which addresses several bugs. Most bugs were relatively minor, but it is recommended you upgrade. Some of the bugs fixed include: H2

February 20, 2009