Application schema changes are incremental, cumulative, and painful - often reaping havoc on the Application Release Lifecycle. Using manual processes with SQL scripts are error-prone, as well as hard to track and troubleshoot. Learn release and deploy best practices for automating schema management using Datical and IBM UrbanCode Deploy. See how Datical extends the popular Liquibase Open Source project for enterprise use with a data model approach for previewing impact of change in production.

1. Best Practices for Application
Release & Deploy Success
Integrating Datical and IBM
UrbanCode Deploy
or
What is slowing my application releases?

2. Agenda
Vision
Reality
Solution
DevOps rapidly produce/deliver
software products and services
Database Changes will stop you
from reaching your vision
Datical & IBM UrbanCode Deploy

3. © 2012 IBM Corporation33
Accelerate
software delivery –
for faster time to
value
Balance speed, cost,
quality and risk –
for increased
capacity to innovate
Reduce time to
customer feedback –
for improved
customer experience
IBM DevOps point of view
Enterprise capability for continuous software delivery that enables organizations to seize
market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback
Our DevOps POV is resonating with clients and they are delivering
measurable business outcomes with DevOps
Continuous
Customer Feedback
& Optimization
Collaborative
Development
Continuous Release
and Deployment
Continuous
Monitoring
Continuous
Business Planning
Continuous
Testing
Operate Develop/
Test
Deploy
Steer
DevOps
Continuous
Feedback

4. © 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM UrbanCode Deploy is Application Scoped
Pet Shop
Content
J2EE App
MySQL DB
SIT
WEB
MID
DB
PROD
WEB
MID
DB
Tomcat
Deploy
Process
Rollback
Process
Restart
Process
Big Idea:
Release together
what you
Tested together

5. DevOps: Vision
ProductionTest Stage
Package

6. DevOps: Reality
ProductionTest
Package
Stage
SQL Scripts
1..n
SQL Scripts
1a..n!
SQL Scripts
1b..n!
SQL Scripts
1c..n!

7. DevOps: Solution
ProductionTest Stage
IBM UrbanCode Deploy
Package
Database
Changes
1. Shift-Left: Align Database Changes
with Application Changes
• Not a tangent
• Not an after thought
• Dev no throw over wall to DBA
2. Automate Deployments:
Application and Database Updates
• Through your environments
• Not a separate process
• No non-standard steps

8. You Can’t Do That!
• “Rail travel at high speed is not possible because
passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.”
- Dr Dionysys Larder (1793-1859)
• “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any
significant market share. No chance.”
- Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, 2007
• “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
- Lord Kelvin, 1895
• “A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s
atmosphere.” -
New York Times, 1936
• "I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers.” -
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

9. You HAVE to do it!
Database contains your most valued
asset—your Business Data
Must be preserved.
Can’t just plop down a new database
structure.
Traditional approaches won’t work.

10. Gettin’ There!
…Support DevOps Agile/Continuous Delivery Initiatives
Align Database Changes with Your Application Code…
Separate Application
DBA from System
DBA
Model Database
“Application Schema”
Changes
Forecast and Control
Application Schema
Deployments
1.
2.
3.

11. 1. Separate Application DBA from System DBA
Application
DBA
• DDL
• Packages
• Procedures
• Functions
• Triggers
Grey Area
• DML, Synonyms, Partitions, Table Space
• Types, Database Links
System
DBA
• Design & Architecture
• Provision & Configure
• Patch & Update
• Enterprise Standards & Security
• Capacity & Performance
• Backup &Restore

12. 2. Model “Application Schema” Changes
Reduce/Eliminate
SQL
Standardized
Naming/Tagging
Convention
Traceable History
of the Evolution
of your Schema

13. 3. Forecast/Control Schema Deployments
• Understand the impact of database changes in
advance.
• Eliminate risk by leveraging environmental intelligence
• Ensure environment integrity and consistency
Sanity check
changes
automatically
• Automate deployment complete application releases
• Prior to execution the model can be used to simulate
proposed changes
• Deploy with confidence in sensitive environments
Deploy schema
changes
automatically
• Leverage standardized naming and tagging
• Deploy/Hold release changes at will
• Clear View of Completeness
Control rollout of
changes
programmatically

14. Datical
Technical Overview

15. Daticalized Database Change Management
ProductionTest Stage
IBM UrbanCode Deploy
Manage
Confidently know the
current state and how
it got there across
the application
release lifecycle.
Forecast
Automated, intelligent
change deployment
with proactive
predictive analysis.
Package
Model
Easily create and
model database
changes across your
software release
stages.
Deploy
Automated, intelligent
change deployment
with proactive
predictive analysis.

16. Datical Product Overview
Snapshot
Captures the
current state
of the
database
Compare
Provides
schema
differences
between
environments
Forecast
Impacts
analysis of
proposed
changes
Deploy
Executes
changes to the
database
Rollback
Undo select
database
changes
Audit
Provides
visibility into
database
changes
C:datial.exe
linux# ./datical
Datical UI Datical CLI Integrations
Deploy Plan
DEV
QA
PROD
ChangeSet 1
ChangeSet 2
ChangeSet 3
ChangeLog
Datical
Engine

17. Datical
Demo

18. IBM UrbanCode Deploy/Datical
Integrated Demo

19. 949-DATICAL
For more information
www.datical.com
949-DATICAL

20. Datical UI

21. Datical/Jenkins Integration

22. Datical/IBM UrbanCode Deploy Integration