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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
Product

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
Celebrating 15 years of Liquibase
News

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
DBTA Top 100
News

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
News

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
2021 Database DevOps Innovation Award
News

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
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Tips & Tricks

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
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CI/CD & DevOps

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
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CI/CD & DevOps

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
Company

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

February 26, 2021
Liquibase
Product

Results from the 2020 Liquibase Community Survey

Thank you to everyone who participated in our 2020 Liquibase community survey! Your feedback informs our roadmap and helps us build the best solutions possible to make database

February 2, 2021
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CI/CD & DevOps

Want to Strengthen Database Security? Automate.

Database automation is not the first line of defense for your databases. The first line of defense should be network security. The second, third, and fourth lines of defense

January 19, 2021
Company

Liquibase 2020 Wrap-Up

Thanks to our customers and community, we thrived in 2020. As one VC famously declared, “software is eating the world” and the pace of consumption is quickening as quality

December 31, 2020
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Tips & Tricks

Liquibase and MySQL User Grants for Stored Routines

The MySQL grant system controls which users can view and execute stored routines. In Liquibase 4.2, we added a feature for Liquibase Pro users that certifies our stored logic

December 9, 2020
press release
News

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
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CI/CD & DevOps

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
Tips & Tricks

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
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CI/CD & DevOps

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
Tips & Tricks

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
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CI/CD & DevOps

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

September 4, 2020
webinar-devops
CI/CD & DevOps

5 Reasons Database Automation is Vital to Your Digital Transformation Strategy

By now, software automation is considered mainstream in the digital era we find ourselves in, but we may only be at the beginning of the revolution. According to Markets and

September 2, 2020
CI/CD & DevOps

How to Handle Problems with Database Changes

This is the eleventh post in a series we’re calling CI/CD:DB. Read from the beginning. CI/CD is an engineering practice geared for change management. With any such

August 25, 2020
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CI/CD & DevOps

Visibility into the CI/CD Pipeline

This is the tenth post in a series we’re calling CI/CD:DB. Read from the beginning. Collaboration is central to DevOps practices such as CI/CD. Collaboration is so

August 19, 2020
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CI/CD & DevOps

Guardrails for CI/CD

This is the ninth post in a series we’re calling CI/CD:DB. Read from the beginning. The notion that database changes can be handled with safety and minimal intervention

August 13, 2020
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CI/CD & DevOps

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
Liquibase
Company

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
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CI/CD & DevOps

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
Company

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
Product

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
Company

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
press release
News

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
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CI/CD & DevOps

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

June 23, 2020
Company

Life at a startup

Certainly, startup work is not the life and death situation that Admiral Farragut faced in battle. However, too cautious an approach has contributed to the death of more than one

June 22, 2020
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Product

Liquibase Hub — Real-time monitoring for Liquibase database changes

Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could easily understand the when and where of what's been deployed or hasn't been deployed in one simple dashboard? The goal of Liquibase Hub is

June 18, 2020
CI CD Blog 2
CI/CD & DevOps

Pipeline Design Goals & Challenges

This is the second post in a series we're calling CI/CD:DB. Read from the beginning. In the first blog of this series, we talked about bringing databases into the CI/CD

June 16, 2020
SQL Plus integration blog
Product

Liquibase Pro 3.10 Released with SQL Plus Integration

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
Liquibase Enterprise
Product

Liquibase Enterprise 7.3 Released

Perhaps you heard the news yesterday that Datical is now Liquibase. Rest assured that, while the name has changed, we are still working hard at expanding our product’s

May 20, 2020
press release
News

Datical is Now Liquibase; Company Returns to its Open Source Roots with Support from its Community

New and updated product portfolio, new CEO and board member, and expanded open source community resources bolsters company’s commitment to the developer community AUSTIN,

May 19, 2020
Liquibase
Company

Welcome to the new Liquibase

We’re excited to share that we’re evolving to better serve our customers, community, and partners! https://youtu.be/axEGKLhD2qU Datical is now Liquibase Our

May 19, 2020
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Product

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
press release
News

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
Company

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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

March 4, 2020
press release
News

Datical Continues Investment in Liquibase with New Capabilities

The Most Requested Feature for Liquibase: Targeted Rollback is Now Available AUSTIN, Texas – Feb. 27, 2020 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation

February 27, 2020
Liquibase
Product

Introducing Targeted Rollback for One Update

We recently rolled out Targeted Rollback in Liquibase 3.8.6 for rolling back one specific changeset. Now, we’re very happy to announce Liquibase 3.8.7 for rolling

February 25, 2020
press release
News

Datical Names Dion Cornett as President, Closes 2019 with Continued Year-over-year Growth

Former Red Hat and MariaDB Executive to Drive Investment in Open Source Community for Database Change; Company’s Sustained Growth Garners Funding, Fuels Launch of Liquibase Pro

February 13, 2020
Liquibase
Product

Introducing Targeted Rollback for One Change

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
book
CI/CD & DevOps

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
Events

Catch Us at DevOps Enterprise Summit | Las Vegas 2019

We're looking forward to talking to DevOps enthusiasts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas! Meet one-on-one with a DevOps database expert Since there's so much going on,

October 8, 2019
CI/CD & DevOps

Roll Back the Database or Fix Forward?

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - Benjamin Franklin How many times has your team had to roll back a database change? If your answer is greater than zero,

October 2, 2019
man on mountain
CI/CD & DevOps

Journey to Database Change Automation

Mabuti Ng’andu Director of IT, Data Management, Database & Middleware at MedImpact Healthcare Systems, walked us through his team’s journey to database deployment

September 30, 2019
CI/CD & DevOps

Database Deployments: State or Database Migration?

Most state-based versus migration-based content floating around the internet is based on a paradigm that references old technology and old processes. Imagine reading a story about

September 19, 2019
developers working at table
CI/CD & DevOps

Doing DevOps in 2019

I recently had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Dr. Nicole Forsgren. For the uninitiated, Dr. Forsgren is a leading IT impacts expert best known for her work with tech

September 16, 2019
CI/CD & DevOps

How to Choose Database Release Automation Tools

Why are Database Release Automation Tools Important? Database automation tools are no longer optional. With the widespread adoption of DevOps and Agile practices, tools for

September 10, 2019
dba working
CI/CD & DevOps

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
pipeline
Company
CI/CD & DevOps

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
press release
News

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
Company
Product

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
clouds
CI/CD & DevOps

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
migrating birds
CI/CD & DevOps

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
Product

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
Liquibase
News

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
Company

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
press release
News

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
Company

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
Application Teams Effective
CI/CD & DevOps

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
Liquibase
News

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
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Company
Product

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
Spongebob fire
CI/CD & DevOps

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
CI/CD & DevOps

CALMS for DevOps and Databases

Many companies already apply the CALMS framework to their application code or front-end development process. Advances in database DevOps software and processes now mean the same

May 3, 2019
Liquibase
News

New Research Shows Slow Database Deployments are a Primary Challenge for Companies Accelerating Application Releases

80% of application stakeholders agree deploying database code changes take longer to deploy than application code changes AUSTIN, Texas – April 30, 2019 – Datical, the

April 30, 2019
CI/CD & DevOps

Results from the State of Enterprise Database Deployments in 2019

For the second year in a row, we worked with Dimensional Research to conduct an important survey of application developers, application release engineers, enterprise architects,

April 30, 2019
Product
CI/CD & DevOps

How to Install Datical in AWS

Introduction Cloud adoption among large enterprises is at record numbers after nearly a decade of growing investments. AWS is a market leader in serving the growing enterprise

March 26, 2019
Liquibase
News

Database Release Automation Market Growth Continues as Datical Secures $10 Million in Series C Funding

Investment from River Cities Capital Funds, S3 Ventures and Mercury Fund Highlights Growing Demand for Database Release Automation  AUSTIN, Texas – Feb. 28, 2019

February 28, 2019
Liquibase
News

Datical Concludes 2018 with a 94 Percent Increase in Annual Subscription Revenue

Leader in Database Release Automation Continues Yearly Momentum, Expanding the Company’s Customer Base by 30 Percent AUSTIN, Texas – Feb. 5, 2019 – Datical, the

February 5, 2019
Liquibase
News

Datical Announces Support for Liquibase™ Workflow, Making Enterprise Database Release Automation Capabilities Accessible to Liquibase Users

Market Leader’s Move Makes Critical, Enterprise-Class Database Release Capabilities Readily Accessible to Millions  AUSTIN, Texas – Nov. 28, 2018 – Datical, the

November 28, 2018
Liquibase
News

Delphix and Datical Extend Global Partnership, Bring New DataOps Solutions to Modern Enterprises

Over one-half of all Fortune 50 companies work with Delphix, Datical to deliver high quality software – faster and more securely – to close Data Velocity Gap REDWOOD CITY,

October 23, 2018
Company

Datical, Delphix and XebiaLabs team up on joint solution that  supercharges enterprise software teams

It’s Hard Out There for DevOps Teams The reality is that software development today is slow, manual, risky and expensive. It’s also woefully unable to keep up with the speed

October 23, 2018
Liquibase
News

Colonial Life Achieves Full-Stack DevOps with Datical

Market Leader in Voluntary Insurance Benefits Brings DevOps Automation to the Database; Delivers Innovation to Customers Faster AUSTIN, Texas – Sept. 20, 2018 

September 20, 2018
CI/CD & DevOps

Updated: 6 DevOps Predictions for 2018 – Midyear Checkpoint

Last December, I made some predictions for 2018. Now that we’re at the halfway point, let’s check in and see how those predictions are faring. After all, a key tenant of

August 9, 2018
Liquibase
News

Datical Continues Corporate Momentum, Product Innovation and Customer Growth

Leader in Database Release Automation Wraps Up First Half of 2018; Released Datical 5, Relocated to New Headquarters and Expanded Leadership Team AUSTIN, Texas – July 31,

July 31, 2018
CI/CD & DevOps

The Benefits of Agile Database Development

As technology continues to permeate through society, companies across all industries are finding out that they must think and behave like software companies. This is because the

July 18, 2018
Liquibase
News

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
Product
CI/CD & DevOps

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

June 4, 2018
CI/CD & DevOps

Database Compliance & Security: What You Need to Know

For many organizations, meeting data and database regulatory compliance and security requirements is a top priority. Failing to meet regulatory requirements can make the

May 9, 2018
Liquibase
News

Datical Announces the General Availability of Datical 5

Enterprise-class platform enhances database release visibility and increases developer productivity AUSTIN, Texas – May 3, 2018 – Datical, the leading provider

May 3, 2018
Liquibase
News

Datical and DORA to Host Webinar on Measuring DevOps Performance

AUSTIN, Texas – April 18, 2018 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, and DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), today announced

April 18, 2018
CI/CD & DevOps

5 Essential DevOps Metrics

In a world where users expect timely and responsive updates and where tough competition can seemly emerge from nowhere, speed and agility are essential to survival. To keep

April 16, 2018
CI/CD & DevOps

Top 3 Challenges of Moving to the Cloud

Yes, everyone has a cloud strategy – it might be public, private, or hybrid. It might be just for greenfield applications or part of a lift-and-shift strategy or both. For

April 2, 2018
Liquibase
News

New Research Shows 93 Percent of Enterprises Face Application Delivery Challenges Because of Manual Database Deployment Processes

Nearly all respondents cited automating database deployments alongside the application releases would accelerate application delivery  AUSTIN, Texas – March 15,

March 15, 2018
press release
News

Datical Delivers Enterprise-Class Platform Enhancements to Bring Continuous Automation and Delivery to the Database

Datical 5 speeds software development by providing customers with a central command center that delivers enhanced database release visibility and increased developer

February 20, 2018
CI/CD & DevOps

Data Strategy for Digital Transformation

It’s 2018 and it seems like everyone has a Digital Transformation or DevOps initiative – or at least something similar in sprit. This isn’t really a surprise is it? Anyone

January 29, 2018
Liquibase
News

Datical Wraps Up 2017 with Record Customer Growth, Product Innovation and Partner Expansion

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

January 18, 2018
Product
CI/CD & DevOps

4 Reasons Why You Need Visibility Into Database Deployments

The database is a bottleneck to application deployments. A recent CIO Magazine survey showed 91% of Database Managers and 90% of Application Development Managers agree. By gaining

January 16, 2018
CI/CD & DevOps

6 DevOps Predictions for 2018

This past year was good for DevOps: we saw more enterprise adoption of containers, microservices and cloud native applications. Organizations are increasing their reliance on

December 19, 2017
Liquibase
News

Datical Teams Up with Pivotal to Deliver Database Automation to Enterprises Deploying Cloud-Native Applications

Integration with Concourse helps enterprises close the DevOps data gap and release new innovations to market faster AUSTIN, Texas – Dec. 14, 2017 – Datical, the leading

December 14, 2017
CI/CD & DevOps

The Mainframe (Database) is Dead. Long Live the Mainframe (Database)

“There is no consequential difference between mainframe applications and distributed applications; the same techniques, like continuous integration, test automation, and

November 21, 2017
Liquibase
News

Datical Launches Partner Program to Unite and Empower the DevOps Ecosystem

Partner Program Aims to Drive Digital Transformation for Data AUSTIN – Nov. 8, 2017 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, today

November 8, 2017
CI/CD & DevOps

The Future of DevOps – 10 Thought Leaders Weigh In

Companies must delivery applications faster than ever in order to survive in this digital era.  The adoption of DevOps has changed the game of software delivery.  However, with

October 16, 2017
CI/CD & DevOps

DevOps Reference Architectures: What about the Database?

DevOps best practices abound. In fact, our friends at Sonatype have collected 73 DevOps reference architectures. Wow! That’s a lot of architecture! There are three that we like

October 9, 2017
Liquibase
News

Datical Announces Support for Mission Critical Applications on IBM Db2 for z/OS

Leader in database automation brings DevOps to the largest mainframe database to give enterprises faster application releases ORLANDO, Fla. – GARTNER

October 3, 2017
CI/CD & DevOps

The 8 Keys for Ensuring Agile Transformation Success

Agile development is no longer a question of if. Companies of every stripe, regardless of size, industry or geography, are leveraging this methodology every day to get

September 19, 2017
Liquibase
News

Datical Brings Continuous Delivery to the Database with Jenkins

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
Product
CI/CD & DevOps

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

August 16, 2017
Product
CI/CD & DevOps

A New Way to Measure Application Release and Continuous Delivery Efficiency

Think about this. Inventory is risk. Companies purchase inventory; they convert cash into inventory. The risk is that they would buy too little or too much. When one buys too much

July 28, 2017
Liquibase
News

Datical Continues to Simplify the Application Release Process, Delivering Deployment Monitoring Console to Further Expand DevOps to the Database

Datical DMC Lets Users Automatically Track, Audit and Resolve Database Deployment Issues  AUSTIN, Texas – June 27, 2017 – Datical, the leading provider of

June 27, 2017
Liquibase
News

Datical Announces Support for Oracle Exadata

Datical Increases Deployment Speed for Business Critical Applications on Oracle  AUSTIN, Texas – May 31, 2017 – Datical, the leading provider of database release

May 31, 2017
Liquibase
News

Datical and Delphix to Host DevOps.com Webinar on Plugging the DevOps Data Gap

AUSTIN, Texas – May 24, 2017 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, and Delphix, the market leader in data virtualization,

May 24, 2017
Liquibase
News

Datical Announces Integration with CA/Automic Release Automation

New Plug-in Enables Database Continuous Delivery by Making It Easier to Manage Database Deployments Directly from the Automic Automation Engine AUSTIN, Texas – May 16,

May 16, 2017
Liquibase
News

Datical Announces Record-Breaking 2016

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

February 22, 2017
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CI/CD & DevOps

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
Liquibase
News

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
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CI/CD & DevOps

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
Company

Top 5 Blog Posts from Datical in 2016

Here they are! The most viewed Blog Posts of 2016. Our main take away is that you really like numbers and DevOps! Every single one of our top 5 is a quick hit that provides a

December 20, 2016
CI/CD & DevOps

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
News

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

Partnership adds database deployment to industry-leading application release automation Austin, Texas and Boston, MA – October18, 2016 –Datical, the leading provider

October 18, 2016
Company
Product

Datical & Liquibase: Which one is right for you?

I talk to quite a few companies every year, comprising all shapes, sizes, and shades of Agile and DevOps. And within those companies, I like to hear from everyone – from the

October 14, 2016
Liquibase
News

Datical And Radial Present Devops.Com Webinar On Continuous Integration For The Database

Austin, Texas – September 20, 2016 – Datical, the leading provider of agile database automation solutions, and Radial, the e-commerce firm born from a merger between

September 20, 2016
CI/CD & DevOps

Eliminate the DevOps Blind Spot with Database DevOps

You’re bought into DevOps. You may have purchased Application Release Automation software. Your application development teams are happy. Now, when you read about the benefits of

September 15, 2016
Liquibase
News

Datical Adds Talent to Build on Success

Company welcomes new VP, advisor and board member Austin, Texas – September 8, 2016 – Datical, the leading provider of agile database automation solutions, is

September 8, 2016
CI/CD & DevOps

Somebody Else’s Problem: How We End Up Making Mistakes in DevOps Toolchain Selection

Originally published on DZone by Robert Reeves, CTO, Datical. Quick! Describe your application’s system architecture. You have 30 seconds….go! Welcome back. I guarantee that

September 8, 2016
CI/CD & DevOps

What Toyota Can Teach Us About DevOps

Originally published on Enterprise Apps Tech by Pete Pickerill, Datical VP of Product and Co-Founder. Let’s face it: No matter how much exciting innovation is transpiring in

August 30, 2016
Liquibase
News

Datical Continues Rapid Expansion

Consistent adoption of Datical’s database deployment solutions drives top-line growth Austin, Texas – August 10, 2016 – Datical, the leading provider of agile

August 10, 2016
Liquibase
News

Datical Debuts Continuous Integration Solution for the Database

Datical DB 4.0 keeps database administrators from having to review vast majority of database changes Austin, Texas – July 7, 2016 – Datical, the leading provider of

July 7, 2016
CI/CD & DevOps

3 Things Companies Forget When Implementing DBaaS

Keeping databases up-to-date is difficult. Almost a third of Oracle DBAs run over 5 different set configurations across all of their environments. Obviously, we need automation to

June 13, 2016
Liquibase
News

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

May 10, 2016
Company
Product

Making the Database Great Again!

Over the past decade, Database Professionals have been on the outside looking in. We’ve seen all sorts of development practices and tools to support Agile and DevOps in

May 6, 2016
Liquibase
News

Datical Named a Gartner 2016 Cool Vendor

Exclusive recognition speaks to Datical’s ability to eliminate DevOps bottlenecks in last mile of application release Austin, Texas – May 5, 2016 – Datical, the

May 5, 2016
CI/CD & DevOps

Do You Really Need Rollbacks for Your Database Changes?

Every Valentine’s Day, I check the batteries in my smoke detectors because I love my family. Now, the last thing I want to hear is a smoke detector alarm, but I would be a

May 4, 2016
CI/CD & DevOps

Newsflash: The DBA is NOT Infallible

Standard practice for updating the production database is to have a human review the proposed change and implement it.  We have done it that way for a long time.  We trust the

April 11, 2016
CI/CD & DevOps

Microservices, Legacy Applications, and the Relational Database

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

March 29, 2016
CI/CD & DevOps

Database as Code: A Novel Concept

We talk a lot about treating the database as a first-class software citizen. We talk a lot about treating it like an enterprise’s most valuable asset. But, what about the

March 23, 2016
Liquibase
News

Datical has banner year in 2015, gears up for significant expansion in 2016

Modern enterprise application delivery creates urgent need to automate database changes Austin, Texas – February 11, 2016 – Datical, the leading provider of agile

February 11, 2016
CI/CD & DevOps

Ten Years of Continuous Integration: Where’s My Continuous Integration Database?

In 2006, Martin Fowler posted his now famous essay on Continuous Integration. Looking back, what seemed revolutionary, radical or just plain crazy is now common, pedestrian and

February 2, 2016
Liquibase
News

Datical Presents GE Transportation, DevOps.com Webinar on Revitalizing Legacy Applications

Austin, Texas – January 26, 2016 – Datical, the leading provider of agile database automation solutions, is sponsoring a webinar featuring GE Transportation and hosted

January 26, 2016
Liquibase
News

Datical Raises $8 Million in Series B Funding to Automate Database Management for DevOps

Investment Will Accelerate Product Development and Scale Marketing, Sales and Support Austin, Texas – January 21, 2016 – Datical, the leading provider of Agile

January 21, 2016
Company

Today, Datical Hits Warp Speed on Growth and Value for Customers

Today we are announcing a Series B investment of $8 million. This is a significant funding round by any measure and, to put it in context, it ranks in the top 5 software venture

January 21, 2016
CI/CD & DevOps

3 Prerequisites for a Successful Enterprise DevOps Transformation

Mainstream adoption of DevOps continues to trend upward, as more and more enterprises seek to gain the benefits of faster and more stable delivery, shorter time to market, and

January 10, 2016
Liquibase
News

Datical Experiences 300 Percent Growth, Expands Austin Headquarters

Record Growth Reflects Critical Need for Companies to Address Modern Database Management Woes Austin, Texas – October 27, 2015 – Datical, the leading provider of

October 27, 2015
Liquibase
News

North Dakota Entrusts Datical With Aiding In Deployment Of Vital Human Services Application

Automating Database Changes Streamlines Rollout of New Application for Citizens Austin, Texas – October 15, 2015 – Datical, the leading provider of agile

October 15, 2015
CI/CD & DevOps

Avoid “Integration Hell” Using Continuous Integration

Hasan Sunasara relates three scenarios that many development teams can recognize in an article on how not to descend into Integration Hell (see article here): Required files

October 12, 2015
CI/CD & DevOps

Database Change Management: DevOps’ Missing “Last Mile” in Release Automation

By Robert Reeves, Datical CTO & Co-Founder Welcome to our new blog…Primary Keys.  As the name suggests, the plan is to discuss database issues – and specifically

September 18, 2015
Liquibase
News

Delphix and Datical Partner to Bring Modern Data Management to DevOps

Combined Solution Cuts Project Schedules in Half While Delivering Better Production Code MENLO PARK, CA — (Marketwired) — 07/27/15 — Delphix, the market leader

July 27, 2015
CI/CD & DevOps

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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
CI/CD & DevOps

7 Continuous Delivery Metrics to Track

(Updated July 18, 2018) How prepared is your organization for continuous delivery? Michael Bowler’s article on the Agile Advice blog discusses his thoughts about which

May 4, 2015
Liquibase
News

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
CI/CD & DevOps

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

March 10, 2015
Product
CI/CD & DevOps

The Cost of Delay in Prioritizing the Product Backlog

I ran across a really interesting article this morning from Derek Huether on the Leading Agile blog that introduces a concept called Cost of Delay for making decisions about how

March 3, 2015
CI/CD & DevOps

5 Enterprise Business Drivers for DevOps

George Hulme wrote an article on DevOps.com yesterday detailing five reasons that are emerging as the most important business drivers behind enterprise adoption of DevOps (see

March 3, 2015
CI/CD & DevOps

9 Empirical Metrics for Agile Success

Whether your organization is trying to go Agile or has been practicing Agile for some time, defining the metrics used to gauge the success of your efforts can be a tricky

March 3, 2015
CI/CD & DevOps

8 Common Causes of Failure in Agile Projects

Change is difficult. Agile represents change. It then follows that Agile is difficult. What makes Agile difficult as change is that it requires that we think about how we approach

March 3, 2015
CI/CD & DevOps

3 Focus Areas for Leaders in DevOps Transformations

In today’s application economy, business is moving faster than it ever has before. To capitalize on ever-shortening windows of opportunity to address current market trends, the

March 3, 2015
CI/CD & DevOps

Trying to Do DBaaS or Cloud DB Without Automation? Forget It.

These days, it seems everything is offered “as-a-service.” Applications are moving to the cloud, and every one of those apps is delivered faster due to Agile and DevOps.

January 1, 2015
Product
CI/CD & DevOps

Making Your Automated Tests Faster

By Ann Marie Fred.  See original post here. One part of my job is helping other teams adopt DevOps in general, and continuous delivery in particular. But I have a problem:

June 26, 2014

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