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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 Community users will

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

February 26, 2021

My journey to becoming a Liquibase Legend

I love the Liquibase product. My first experience with Liquibase was in 2012. I was hired as a Build Automation Engineer at a company that was a competitor to Groupon. That

February 24, 2021

January Community Recap

While January may feel like the longest and slowest month of the year for some, for the Liquibase Community, the start of 2021 went by faster than combining lightning, a cheetah,

February 11, 2021

Liquibase 4.3 Released

This release includes many community-contributed pull requests and bug fixes as well as an enhanced Liquibase Hub integration with two new capabilities: optional

February 9, 2021

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

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

Community Update for January

Greetings 2021! We're glad you're here. With the winter holidays behind us, we're jumping head first into the new year with great excitement for developments within our

January 13, 2021

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

Celebrating our 255th Liquibase Fundamentals Certified learner

Since its launch in July of this year, Liquibase University has enabled learners from across the globe to earn their Liquibase Fundamentals Certification. These Liquibase users

December 17, 2020

Community Update for December

December has made its swift arrival and all too soon we’ll be closing out the infamous year that was 2020. Despite its somewhat egregious reputation, this year has brought many

December 10, 2020

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

Correcting SQL Code Mistakes with Liquibase

No one is perfect. SQL code mistakes happen. Let’s say you just checked your database code into source control. The CI/CD automation job ran a Liquibase update to deploy the

November 19, 2020

Real-time monitoring for Liquibase database changes is here

We're excited to announce that Liquibase Hub is now generally available! Sign up for your free account. What is Liquibase Hub? Liquibase Hub is a secure portal that

November 17, 2020

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

September 4, 2020

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

Managing Cockroach Database Schema Changes

Anyone that manages a Cockroach database knows that at some point you’ll need to modify your database schemas. Perhaps you need to store new kinds of information. Or maybe

August 29, 2020

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

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

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

How I Learned to Love Testing Open Source

“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

Using Liquibase via Docker

Docker is super awesome for running machines that we previously used via virtual machines. But, each virtual machine requires a separate copy of the operating system. That’s a

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

June 23, 2020

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

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

Customize generated SQL from an XML changeset

Sometimes you need to modify SQL in specific changesets and you still want to use the abstracting power of XML to make your change database agnostic. Although Liquibase supports

June 17, 2020

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

Liquibase 3.10 Released

Liquibase 3.10.0 is now available with SQL Plus integration, custom executor extensibility, and a new auto-complete Bash script. Here’s a closer look at what’s included in

June 15, 2020

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

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

June 4, 2020

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

New Liquibase.org

You’ve probably noticed some changes here on Liquibase.org. The cosmetic stuff is just one small piece of a much larger change, so let’s jump in. Community

May 19, 2020

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

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

Liquibase 3.9.0 Released

Liquibase 3.9.0 is now available. Here's a closer look at what's included in the latest release. Liquibase Pro extended diff command capability Automate drift detection at

May 14, 2020

Making it easier to contribute code to Liquibase

The internal Liquibase team spent the past month streamlining code contributions for Liquibase Community! We have a lot of updates to share. Making it simple to

April 27, 2020

New Beta Program for Liquibase 4.0

Hey community, we are on our way to making Liquibase 4.0 a reality! This major release contains hundreds of bug fixes and improvements, merging dozens of Pull Requests and

April 20, 2020

Liquibase 4.0 Beta 1 Released

Liquibase 4.0 Beta 1 is now available through Liquibase.org. In this new major release, we have integrated dozens of community Pull Requests, addressing well over 100 bugs,

April 20, 2020

Liquibase 3.8.9 Released

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

March 4, 2020

Recent Liquibase Articles, March 2020

Here are some articles and other interesting things written by the many people around the world that are using Liquibase. JHipster Crash Course - Part 1JHipster is an

March 2, 2020

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

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

Liquibase 3.8.7 Released

Liquibase 3.8.7 is now available. Here’s a closer look at what’s included in the latest release. Liquibase 3.8.7 Overview More Targeted Rollback functionality for

February 25, 2020

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 Installer: An Easier Way to Get Started with Liquibase

Our team has been working on making Liquibase easier for new users to install and to get up and running quickly with all-in-one Windows and MacOs installers. Watch the MacOS

February 13, 2020

Liquibase 3.8.6 Released

Liquibase 3.8.6 is now available. Here’s a closer look at what’s included in the latest release. Liquibase 3.8.6 Overview Introducing Targeted Rollback for Liquibase

February 10, 2020

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

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

February 7, 2020

3 Ways to Run Liquibase

There are a few different ways to run Liquibase. Each application and project team has different needs so the best way to run Liquibase depends on what works best for your use

February 2, 2020

Liquibase Works with Plain Old SQL

It’s time for some myth-busting! Yes, Liquibase really can work with SQL scripts. In fact, our recent Liquibase survey revealed that most of our users prefer using

January 28, 2020

Liquibase 3.8.5 Released

Liquibase 3.8.5 is now available. Here’s a closer look at what’s included in the latest release. Liquibase 3.8.5 Bug Fix Overview We’ve fixed a number of issues with

January 9, 2020

Top 10 Findings from Our 2019 Liquibase Community Survey

First, a huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the Liquibase community survey. We had the best turnout ever and really appreciate all of the great input and feedback.

January 6, 2020

Liquibase 3.8.4 Released

Liquibase 3.8.4 is now available. Here’s a closer look at what’s included in the latest release. Liquibase 3.8.4 Overview Liquibase 3.8.4 fix for Liquibase Pro Spring

December 23, 2019

Liquibase 3.8.3 Released

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

November 6, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May 9, 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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 3.6.3 Released

Liquibase 3.6.3 is now available. Question or comments can be directed to answer@liquibase.org. Version 3.6.3 is a bugfix release while we work on a 3.7.0

January 29, 2019

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

Taking the XML Changeset and Changelog Workflows to the Next Level

As many of you know, a few years after starting the Liquibase open-source project, I joined the team at Datical. For those who are unaware, Datical is a commercial solution built

November 27, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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 3.6.2 Released

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

June 4, 2018

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

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

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

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

Liquibase 3.6.0 Released

Liquibase 3.6.0 (actually 3.6.1 as well) is now available from liquibase.org/download and through the Maven repositories. Question or comments can be directed to

April 11, 2018

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

2018 Community Survey

Listening to feedback from the community is a vital part of any open source project and it has frankly been a little too long since I’ve had the chance to hear the voice of

March 15, 2018

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

Liquibase 3.5.5 Released

For those of you not watching the download page every day, Liquibase 3.5.5 was released on Feb 15th. The 3.5.5 release is a bugfix release, pulling in a few high-prioritly/low

March 14, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

October 18, 2016

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 3.5.3 Released

The issue that caused me to pull the 3.5.2 release turned out to be a false alarm. Therefore, Liquibase 3.5.3 is now available from liquibase.org/download and

October 13, 2016

Liquibase 3.5.2 Released

Bugfix release Liquibase 3.5.2 is now available from liquibase.org/download and through the Maven repositories. Highlights include: Formatted SQL added

September 21, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

Expanding Database Support

Liquibase has always focused mainly on “standard” SQL databases, but we are looking to improving support for NoSQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop and

July 12, 2016

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

Happy birthday to Liquibase

10 years ago today was the initial public announcement of Liquibase, originally called the “Sundog Database Refactoring Tool”. Like most open source projects,

June 16, 2016

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 3.5.1 Released

Bugfix release Liquibase 3.5.1 is now available from liquibase.org/download and through the Maven repositories. Fixes include: Fixed handling of Liquibase running

May 11, 2016

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

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

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

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

Liquibase 3.5.0 Released

Liquibase 3.5.0 is now available from liquibase.org/download and through the Maven repositories. Question or comments can be directed to

April 21, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 3.4.2 Released

Bugfix release Liquibase 3.4.2 is now available from liquibase.org/download and through the Maven repositories. Fixes include: Maven <skip> configuration

November 24, 2015

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

Halloween Fun

Halloween–the spookiest night of the year. Spookiest night for those who don’t do production deployments anyway… So, for you sys admins, DBAs, and developers who know

October 26, 2015

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

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

2015 Survey Results

There were 136 responses to the 2015 Liquibase Survey. Since I’m relying on self-selection for people answering the survey, the first question is how representative is the

September 25, 2015

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

Using Liquibase without Changelogs

Early on, Liquibase only supported XML changelogs with each changeSet listed in it. There are many advantages to using that setup, but there are now many different ways to store

September 10, 2015

Liquibase Status: Sep 2015

If you missed last month, I’ve started a monthly status post to give a better window into Liquibase development and the Liquibase community. I’d appreciate any feedback you

September 1, 2015

Liquibase Survey 2015

One problem with running an open source project is that we don’t really have “customers” to contact for feedback and product suggestions. I can always just add features

August 18, 2015

Liquibase Status: August 2015

This is the first in a planned monthly post designed to give a better window into Liquibase development and the Liquibase community. I’d appreciate any feedback you have on how

August 4, 2015

Liquibase 3.4.1 Released

Bugfix release Liquibase 3.4.1 is now available. Fixes include: improvements to includeAll logicbetter handling of older-version DATABASECHANGELOG table structures with

July 28, 2015

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

Executing Liquibase: 3 Use Cases

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

Liquibase Without a Database Connection

There are many, many different processes and requirements companies have for managing their database schemas. Some allow the application to directly manage them on startup, some

July 2, 2015

Liquibase 3.4.0 Released

Liquibase 3.4.0 has been released and is working its way through the Maven mirrors. Lots of good things in 3.4.0, but some highlights include: You can now save snapshots

June 24, 2015

Liquibase downloads moved off SourceForge

When I first released Liquibase as open source in 2006, Sourceforge was the obvious place to host the project. Over the years, however, I’ve been slowing shifting functionality

June 15, 2015

Trimming Liquibase ChangeLogs

For people who have used Liquibase for a long time, a common question they have is how to clear out a changelog file that has gotten unwieldy. The standard process for using

June 9, 2015

Liquibase 3.3.5 Released

Yes, I know 3.3.4 just came out yesterday, but there was a configuration issue that affected dependencies in Maven. 3.3.5 resolves this with no other

May 28, 2015

Liquibase 3.3.4 Released

Bugfix release Liquibase 3.3.4 is now available on Liquibase.org and through the Maven repositories. The most notable fix was to make the Maven plugin

May 27, 2015

Liquibase and Datical

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been working for Datical for the last year and a half as “Benevolent Dictator for Life.” I often joke that I feel like

May 4, 2015

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 3.3.3 Released

Liquibase 3.3.3 is primarily a bug fix release. As always, Liquibase can be downloaded from the Liquibase download page and is available in the Maven repository as

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

March 10, 2015

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

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

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

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

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

Liquibase 3.3.2 Released

Liquibase 3.3.2 is officially released. It is primarily a bugfix release, but has one major new feature: object diffChangeLog/generateChangeLog object

January 8, 2015

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

Understanding Contexts vs. Labels

A new feature with Liquibase 3.3 is “labels”. Labels are similar to contexts in that both allow you to chose a subset of changeSets to execute at runtime. Labels are also

November 18, 2014

Liquibase 3.3.0 and 3.2.3 Released

Liquibase 3.2.3 and 3.3.0 have been released. As usual, they can be downloaded from the Liquibase download page and are available in the Maven repository as

November 3, 2014

Liquibase 3.2.2 Released

Liquibase 3.2.2 has been released. It is a small bugfix release to fix a checksum regression from 3.1 -> 3.2 that was not fixed in 3.2.1. Issues

July 24, 2014

Liquibase 3.2.1 Released

Liquibase 3.2.1 has been released. As usual, it can be downloaded from the Liquibase download page and is available in the Maven repository as

July 18, 2014

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

Adding Liquibase to an Existing Project

The Quick Start Guide works well for starting Liquibase on a new project because your empty changelog file matches your empty database. However, when you have an

June 18, 2014

Liquibase 3.2.0 Released

Liquibase 3.2.0 has been released. As usual, it can be downloaded from the Liquibase download page and is available in the Maven repository as

June 2, 2014

Slides from Percona Live Talk

I posted the slides from my Percona Live talk at https://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2014/sessions/liquibase-source-control-your-schema. I modified them from

April 4, 2014

Liquibase Talk at Percona Live

I’ll be giving a talk at Percona Live in Santa Clara on April 3rd titled “Liquibase: Source Control For Your Schema”. It is a beginner-level course covering Liquibase

March 10, 2014

Liquibase Hibernate Extension 3.3 Released

The Liquibase hibernate extension has been updated for both hibernate 3 and hibernate 4. Major changes include: Support for Liquibase 3.1.1Support for Hibernate

February 17, 2014

Liquibase 3.1.1 Released

Liquibase 3.1.1 has been released with a few bug fixes. The most important fixes reverts how <createProcedure> checksums are computed so they are compatible with 3.0

January 16, 2014

Liquibase 3.1.0 Released

Liquibase 3.1.0 has been released. For most people 3.1 is a drop in replacement for 3.0. If you use <includeAll> with relative paths or are running against

January 9, 2014

Liquibase 3.0.8 Released

Liquibase 3.0.8 is officially released. It is purely a bugfix release that covers improvements to data type handing, performance improvements, and much

December 12, 2013

Experimental Amazon Redshift Support

A new Liquibase-Redshift extension is now available at https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase-redshift. If you are interested in trying out Liquibase with Amazon Redshift,

November 14, 2013

Liquibase Hibernate Extension 3.1 Released

The Liquibase hibernate extension has been updated for both hibernate 3 and hibernate 4. This release adds support for catching changes to sequences and unique constraints as

November 14, 2013

Liquibase 3.0.7 Improves Memory Usage

Lots of good bugfixes in 3.0.7, but major improvements are: Significantly decreased memory usage, especially with large sql filesImproved checksum performanceFixed SQLite

October 24, 2013

Group of Liquibase Extensions Updated

There has been a lot of activity the last couple weeks on the Liquibase extensions I manage and/or have source access to. There were a few running up against the Oct 15th

October 15, 2013

New Liquibase Hibernate Extension Released

After far too long, a new version of the Liquibase-Hibernate extension has been released! Downloads, documentation, and issue tracking is hosted

October 11, 2013

Liquibase 3.0.6 Released

I’m happy to announce Liquibase 3.0.6 has been released. While the previous release focused on performance, this release was focused on catching up with pull requests and

October 9, 2013

Full Speed Ahead for Liquibase

For the last two months I have been working full time as an employee with Datical, a startup that is building an enterprise-ready database change management solution on top

October 7, 2013

Liquibase 3.0.5 Released

The major focus of this release is performance improvements: Startup time is significantly improved for larger databasesPreconditions now snapshot far less of the

September 24, 2013

Liquibase 3.0.4 Released

There was a null pointer issue that was tripping up enough people with 3.0.3 that I created a small 3.0.4 release to address the issue. The issues fixed

September 6, 2013

Liquibase 3.0.3 Released

Liquibase 3.0.3 has been officially released. As always, you can download from the Liquibase download page and the new version should be working its way through the

August 29, 2013

Liquibase 3.0.2 Released

Liquibase 3.0.2 has been officially released. It is a purely bugfix release. The major issues fixed are: Indexes and foreign keys were not being correctly handled in the

July 12, 2013

Liquibase 3.0.0 Released

At long last, I’m happy to announce that Liquibase 3.0.0 is finally out! There has been a lot of changes and a lot of work put into 3.0, but the major highlights

June 18, 2013

Liquibase 3.0 Beta 1

Although it has been far too long since the last liquibase release, that is not from a lack of work. I’ve been hard at work at a major update that has been stuck in the “I

February 13, 2013

Liquibase 2.0.5 Released

2.0.5 has been released. This is to fix a couple regressions introduced in 2.0.4. Download from the Liquibase download page. Bug Fixes: Removed new load

May 2, 2012

Liquibase 3.0 Status Update

It has been a while since the last Liquibase release, and I wanted to give a quick status update. The main thing I have been working on is the next version of Liquibase, which

February 24, 2012

Liquibase 2.0.3 Released

2.0.3 is a very small update, mainly fixing the maven repository and the end of line char in the command line unix shell script. Other bugs fixed are: Allow Changelog

October 10, 2011

Liquibase 2.0.2 Released

Liquibase 2.0.2 has been released. It is primarily a bug fix release on the 2.0.1 release and can be downloaded from the Liquibase download page. Visit

September 16, 2011

Liquibase Source Moved to GitHub

For those of you watching and/or contributing to the Liquibase source code, the repository has now moved from the old subversion repository at liquibase.jira.com

July 11, 2011

NetBeans Liquibase Plugin Available

For NetBeans users, there is a Liquibase plugin now available. The current, 0.2 version implements rudimentary support and concentrates on the most needed

April 21, 2011

Clojure Wrapper for Liquibase Now Available

Kumar Shantanu has implemented a Clojure DSL/wrapper for Liquibase which is has reached version 0.1. It is available at https://bitbucket.org/kumarshantanu/clj-liquibase/src. One

March 15, 2011

Liquibase 2.0 Officially Released

At long last, Liquibase 2.0 has been released. For those of you watching closely, you know that 2.0.0 was actually released December 19th, but I wanted to give it a couple weeks

January 27, 2011

New Standard Liquibase Plugin: Grails Database Migration

Now that the Grails Database Migration plugin has had its first release, I will no longer continue maintaining a the Liquibase Grails plugin past the current 1.9.x

January 13, 2011

Liquibase 2.0 Apache 2.0 License

As of the 2.0 release of Liquibase, we will switch to being licensed under the Apache License, version 2.0 rather than the LGPL. The reason for the change is to make Liquibase

June 9, 2010

Liquibase Formatted SQL

Part of the changes made in the upcoming 2.0 release is supporting the ability to specify changelog files in formats other than XML. As a proof of concept, I added the ability

May 12, 2010

Liquibase 2009 Plugin Content Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 Liquibase Plugin Contest! Grand Prize (Choice of 5 O’Reilly Books, donated by O’Reilly): Oracle Extensions by

October 15, 2009

Liquibase 1.9.5 Released

Liquibase 1.9.5 has been released, and can be downloaded from Liquibase download page. This is purely a bugfix release. As usual, let us know on

September 17, 2009

Liquibase Extension Contest 2009 Now Underway

Liquibase 2.0 is all about 3rd party extension and integration, and to help kick that off, we are holding a contest. Thanks to donations

June 24, 2009

Liquibase 1.9.4 Released

Liquibase 1.9.4 has been released. The 1.9.x branch continue to be maintained, even as work continues on Liquibase 2.0. 1.9.4 is primarily a bug fix release, but also

June 23, 2009

Database Version Control on Stack Overflow Podcast

One of the questions that was discussed on a recent StackOverFlow podcast was “Do you source control your database”. It is, obviously, a question near to my

June 4, 2009

Looking for Feedback on Statement Refactoring

I am starting the extensibility refactoring at the *Statement class level and moving up from there. I committed an initial version of what I am thinking to trunk, and am looking

April 22, 2009

Moving Test Datasets Across Database Types

While the main goal of Liquibase is database change tracking, I found a very different use for it lately: moving test datasets. I have an application that has been

April 17, 2009

Liquibase 1.9.2 Released

Liquibase 1.9.2 has been released. It is a bugfix release, mainly around issues with the includeAll tag. Like always, it can be downloaded

April 6, 2009

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

Liquibase 1.9.0 Released

Liquibase 1.9.0 has been released! Major features include: modify SQL supportincludeAll supportSybase Adaptive SQL Anywhere supportPaths in <include> can be

January 7, 2009

Dealing with Changing Changesets

Updated: July 15, 2021 The goal of Liquibase is to consistently apply the exact same changes across all your databases. This consistency gives you the confidence to know that

October 3, 2008

Liquibase 1.8.1 Released

Liquibase 1.8.1 is now available for download. It is a bug fix release that fixes several minor bugs found in 1.8.0. As usual, if you have any questions or comments,

October 1, 2008

Martin Fowler on Incremental Data Migration

Martin Fowler makes good points in his Incremental Migration Bliki post. Data migration is easy to push off or forget, and can often kill an otherwise great

July 10, 2008

Liquibase 1.7.0 Released

It is Liquibase 1.0’s first birthday, but you get the gift: Liquibase 1.7.0 is now available. Major changes include: Added loadData change which allows

June 25, 2008

Liquibase 1.6.1 Released

Liquibase 1.6.1 has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release, but also includes a release of the 1.6 version to the Maven (still propagating), Grails, and IntelliJ

April 23, 2008

Liquibase 1.6.0 Released with Hibernate Support

The Liquibase team is proud to announce the 1.6.0 Liquibase Core release. This release focuses primarily on Hibernate integration which allows you to use

March 27, 2008

Liquibase 1.5.2 Released

Liquibase 1.5.2 has been released. Changes include: Fixed bug with runOnChange and MD5sum checkHandles generating changelog for tables with composite primary keysOther

February 7, 2008

Why aren’t Databases Version Controlled?

There was a great post the other day on Coding Horror titled “Get Your Database Under Version Control”. It references a good series of posts by K. Scott

February 4, 2008

Liquibase 1.5.1 + Grails and IntelliJ Plugins Released

Liquibase Core 1.5.1 has been released along with the initial 1.5.x series Grails and IntelliJ plugins. Changes to the core library are minor bug fixes including: Fixed

February 1, 2008

Liquibase 1.3 Released

Liquibase 1.3 has been released. Major features include: Added `custom` changeAdded `executeCommand` changeAdded `createProcedure` changeAdded sqlCheck

September 27, 2007

SOX Compliance and Database Refactoring

Managing, tracking, and applying database changes is difficult, especially in an agile database environment where there are many changes made throughout a project’s life cycle.

July 3, 2007

Liquibase 1.0 Released

The Liquibase team is proud to announce version 1.0. Liquibase is an open source (LGPL) java-based tool for managing database changes and refactorings. It has been

June 25, 2007

The Problem with Rails Active Migrations

Rails Active Migration is nice for its simplicity, but in non-trivial projects, it quickly falls apart due to limitations it has regarding multiple developers and/or branches.

June 25, 2007

Managing Change Logs

While you can include all your change sets in one giant change log, there are many good reasons to split them up. While there are many ways to divide your change logs, the best

June 22, 2007

The Problem with Database Diffs

When talking about how Liquibase works, I’m often asked “Why not just do a database diff to know what changes need to be applied to a new database?” There are advantages

June 20, 2007

Building Database Tests that Don’t Break

As I discussed in Unit Testing the Database, a difficulty you run into when using a shared dataset for unit tests is making sure you write your test in such a way that

June 7, 2007

Unit Testing the Database Access Layer

The Problem Writing unit tests for code that accesses a database is a difficult problem, and it’s one I’ve struggled with for several years. The problems come down to a

June 5, 2007