dbForge SQL Tools vs. Liquibase

dbForge SQL Complete is well suited for professionals that have to write code all day. In my role in the business intelligence department we are writing SQL pretty much all day. Having a tool that helps us do that faster, in a cleaner way is pretty awesome and something that pays for itself quickly.

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Any Codebase that does schema or table changes all the time for development or where Development and code is mostly in the database or SQL liquibase is a must. In a codebase where the database is pretty static or is just a place to dump data, liquibase is probably too much. You also need to have a team for it to really make sense. Doing a solo or small team project doing full version control on the database is probably more overhead than it is worth.

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• SQL complete allows you to create custom snippets that allow you to store frequently ran queries in shortcuts. The code can be populated within seconds!
• Another great benefit is custom aliases. If you frequently reference the same tables over and over again it gets tiresome to retype the aliases. Storing these can make your code more consistent and save time.
• SQL complete will also highlight the metadata within your database. For example, if you start typing an insert statement you populate code for all the field names by pressing the tab. This is a real-time saver for wide tables!

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• Liquibase provides a clear error log that allows us to pinpoint what to troubleshoot.
• The service does not deploy bad data, which helps us keep our databases clean.
• Liquibase works with GitHub Actions as well as AWS Codebuild and AWS Lambda. The flexibility allows us to deploy the service in many different ways.

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• Sometimes it can be slow to retrieve the database metadata.
• Updating the software with the activation/deactivation of licenses could be further streamlined.

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• Reducing Compatibility issues, when we upgraded Liquibase from 4.2 to 4.9. The same changeset which we were able to run on successfully using 4.2, part of it was now failing when tried to deploy using 4.9
• We are not able to see detailed logs (for different changes) in uDeploy when deploying changes through Liquibase
• Liquibase should rollback the if any one of the changes fails.

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We are and will continue using Liquibase and it has become an integral part of our portfolio offering, any new product is by default adopting Liquibase stack.

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the database deployments helped teams with a increased productivity,
faster delivery and low risk.

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Liquibase's customer support team has been very instrumental in helping us drive the whole Database CI/CD initiative. We have always received very quick resolution to our queries or any roadblock we hit. Right from setting up Liquibase in our environment to this date the Liquibase team has always helped us deliver quality and innovative solutions.

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Build process takes a toll.

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I am very satisfied after using this tool. It is a full-stack tool that includes rich features that can be customized set of functionality as per your need. by using this tool:-

• Increased our productivity rate.
• Provides speed up your development work so you can focus on other stuff.

In my previous project and organization I have used Flyway for database change management and version control similar to Liquibase which I am currently using. Comparing it with Flyway, Liquibase provides more feature flexibility and enhancements to handle complex workflows with rollback capability and its usage of contexts and labels allow us to target changes to specific environments, which Flyway doesn’t support natively. Also Liquibase provides way to compare different schema and generate changelogs for syncing environments automatically where in it allows to have declarative schema management by using XML/YAML/SQL script format.

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• Spending less time trying to figure out how tables are related thanks to the navigational help in dbForge SQL Complete, which means fixing issues takes less time.

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• We are still in the early phases, where the costs are potentially greater than the benefit. Trying to get Liquibase integrated into a pipeline has taken time investment and required some trial and error.
• We are still a relatively small shop with a relatively small number of schema changes (perhaps 1 every week or so). As such, we aren't at a place where we couldn't have managed control of this without a tool. However, there is no doubt that investing in a tool at this stage was the right move. Now we have established guidelines and a pattern for how to do schema changes in a way that will make things easily scalable as we continue to grow.

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