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December 3rd, 2008

Refactorisation of databases with LiquiBase

To manage the modifications of a database is always a delicate matter, that it is during the development of an application, during the unit tests and even during deployment in production.
They notice a big number of difficulties, especially in plans Agile, where changes like data are frequent.
At present, few tools are available on the market and they seldom think of setting them up on our plans. They cross "houses" by solutions with all difficulties which it can procreate.

First of all, we will make a point on problems put down by the management of databases, then we will see how LiquiBase, tools of Refactorisation, is possible help us to overcome them.
We will go on by the description of its characteristics and main functionality and by the different means to carry it out.
A small exercise to gain knowledge of this tool will come to conclude this ticket.

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