Change Management for Oracle Database with SQLcl

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Jeff Smith
Master Product Manager
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Database Tools, Oracle Corp
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Application Schema Lifecycle Management
with Oracle SQLcl

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v3..vNUpgrade v2Deploy v1
Back to v2 ??? Rollback!
Problem: App Schema Lifecyle Management …

1. Home grown solution
2. Hand-crafted scripts
3. Liquibase|Flyway
4. Something else?
Poll: How are you doing this today?

For Free
• less code
• familiar, friendly interface
• we’ll handle dependency ordering
• track changes for downgrades
Our Solution: Leverage Liquibase & make it easy

Liquibase – “Source Control for your Database”
• open source
• deploy versions for your Oracle schema
• go forwards or backwards
• ‘changesets’

Liquibase – changesets
• XML
• JSON
• YAML
• SQL

Liquibase – controller/master => lots of changelogs

Liquibase – DATABASECHANGELOG TABLE
“Liquibase uses the DATABASECHANGELOG table to track which changeSets have been ran.”

• Executable via command line,
• Apache Ant,
• Apache Maven,
• servlet container,
• Spring Framework.
Liquibase – How it runs

Liquibase – Built into Developer Cloud Service

Liquibase – Gives you a lot, for FREE, but…
• …you write the upgrade AND rollback code for each db changelog
• You worry about the order of changelogs to be applied

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The SQL Developer Family
Time Tested
Launched in
2005
An Industry Standard
5M+ Oracle DBAs
& Developers
Always Improving
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Releases
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SQLcl – a Modern CLI for Oracle Database
• 25MB download, only requires a JRE
• SQL*Plus features, but much, much more
• Updated quarterly
• 11gR2 & Higher
• Avail in OCI YUM, OTN,
and DB $ORACLE_HOME

Liquibase – “Source Control for your Database”
• An Open Source project – made easy with SQLcl, for free
• GEN schema/object as LB changelogs (XML via DBMS_METADATA)
• Objects automatically sorted for
creation/updates
• Easily rollback to previous state
• Preview proposed DDL for an UPDATE
• NEW for v19.2

Help & Documentation Examples

How it works
• Liquibase (lb) command is built into SQLcl
• Use DBMS_METADATA to generate XML used in changelogs
• Collects for connected USER, writes to $SQL_PATH
• On deployment:
– we capture current status and write to table for a rollback
– use our parser to scrape the XML and determine creation order

Let’s do a demo: capture and deploy
• Create a directory to hold our changelogs
• Login as the schema we want to capture
• >lb genschema
• Login as the schema we want to deploy to
• >lb update <file.xml> false

Scenario: Adding a Column for v2

Scenario: Adding a Column > Changelog

Scenario: Adding a Column > Push It

Scenario: Adding a Column > Rollback!
• No code written to handle
rollback!
• ‘5’ arbitrary large number – I
want everything undone
• DESC > INFO when you need
terse screenshots 

Real Scenario: Capture, Destroy, Deploy ORDS + APEX
• Stood up APEX and ORDS 19.x
• LB GENSCHEMA for both
• DROP USER APEX_... CASCADE;
• LB UPDATE to bring them back!

You don’t have to use SQLcl, just stick this in your classpath

Application Express (APEX) / RESTful Services?

Availability
• LB command scheduled for SQLcl version 19.2
• Coming to you, SOON
• Follow @oraclesqlcl for
updates & product news

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