Builds

Liquibase is a tool that helps you manage database changes. It can can be integrated into your build process to automatically update your database, and it also has a command line interface that operational staff can use to generate SQL scripts for production deployment. One of its nice features is database abstraction. You define your changesets in XML, and Liquibase generates compatible SQL for you. As with any tool that tries to provide this level of abstraction over a large number of vendors, it doesn’t work 100% with all DBMS. Below is a simple changeset.