Liquibase Developer Workflow
Let's go through the entire developer workflow from beginning to end!
Step One
On your local development machine, add new changesets to your changelog. The changes are your choice to make.
Step Two
Run liquibase update to apply the changes to the developer database. Iterate until you are happy with the final state.
Step Three
Run liquibase status --verbose --url=jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9090/mem:integration
Running the command in step 3 allows you to see that the integration database has changesets that were not applied.
It is always best practice to know what changes are going to take place before saving and applying the changelog, especially if someone else edited or created the changelog.
Step Four
Run liquibase update-sql --url=jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9090/mem:integration
Running the command in step 4 allows you to see exactly what SQL would run when running the update command. You can also run a diff command to compare the changes before saving and applying them.
To run the diff command, run: liquibase diff --url=jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9090/mem:dev --referenceUrl=jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9090/mem:integration --referenceUsername=dbuser --referencePassword=letmein
Step Five
Save your changelog to source control, when you are happy with the changes that will be applied.
Step Six
Run liquibase update --url=jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9090/mem:integration to apply the new changesets.
You can run the status, update-sql, and diff commands again as way to see that all the changes have now been applied to integration.
DONE!
That's the whole workflow! Now, start back at step 1 to continue iterating through the entire cycle until you have a good feel for how Liquibase works.
What Now?
Now that you have a feel for Liquibase against your sample database, you can try it against your standard databases.
Just add your database's jdbc drivers to the lib directory in the Liquibase install directory and update the url, username, and password fields in the Liquibase properties file.
Note: Liquibase 4.6.1 and later versions come with pre-installed drivers. For more information, see Adding and Updating Liquibase Drivers.
Also, check the documentation associated with your specific database to locate the correct url format and download the driver jar. Then use the Liquibase Developer Workflow to make changes against your own database.
