It can be a significant burden to manually apply upgrades to an existing database. Moreover, it’s often an error-laden activity. IBM developerWorks’ recently published an article on this topic for Paul Duvall’s (Stelligent CTO) popular Automation for the people series called Hands-free database migration.

Databases are often out of sync with the applications they support, and getting the database and data into a known state is a significant challenge to manage. Learn how the open source LiquiBase database-migration tool can reduce the pain of managing the constant of change with databases and applications.