Reports of this blogs death have been greatly exaggerated. It has been very quiet here though while I worked on getting the Swedish part of Miracle started. It is now rocking the Stockholm market so it’s time to get back into more geeky stuff.

Talking of which. I have encountered Liquibase for database versioning time after time and always come to the conclusion that it is not what a DBA want to use. I recently took it out for a spin to prove once and for all that it is not capable of what real DBAs need.

Well, lets just say that it did not end like I expected. The phrase, an old dog learns a new trick comes to mind. Once I got over the idea that it is the DDL I have to protect and realised that it is rather control over how changes occur I need. In fact I get all the control I need and a lot of problems with being able to back out changes and to adopt for different kinds of environments and/or database types are easily handled.

Do take it out for a spin, you’ll like it.

If you read Swedish, I wrote a document with a full demo of lots of the features. You find it here. It is a long document, partly because it has a long appendix with a changelog and partly because I step through each change (of 37) and explain them.

I also show how APEX applications can be installed with Liquibase. This is often said to not work, you have to do it by hand with APEX. Well, not only is it possible – it is easy.

I’d translate the demo and the document to English if that would be useful to many people. Let me know if this sounds like a document you’d like to see in English.