Thanks Anuj, that makes a lot of sense. 

Suresh

> On Jan 12, 2017, at 4:56 PM, Anuj <bhandar.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> hello Suresh,
> 
> I had gone through the documentation for FlywayDB, Though the docs are not 
> very clear, here are my observations
>     * FlywayDB doesn't generate delta Scripts like DBDiff does
>     * It is mainly used to run the migration scripts which are already 
> created by some other means, like the one's we generated using DBDiff
> 
>     * https://flywaydb.org/documentation/migration/sql 
> <https://flywaydb.org/documentation/migration/sql> - We just point the 
> FlywayDB to a classpath where the scripts are stored, it will run them 
> accordingly.
> 
> please correct me if I am wrong, FlywayDB can be used along with DBDiff or 
> Liquibase to bring in automation.
> 
> Thanks and best regards,
> 
> Anuj Bhandar
> MS Computer Science
> Indiana University Bloomington
> +1 812 361 9414
> 
> 
> On 01/12/2017 04:34 PM, Suresh Marru wrote:
>> Hi Anuj,
>> 
>> Have you looked at https://flywaydb.org/ <https://flywaydb.org/> ? Its maven 
>> integration caught my attention. Just curios how it compared with the 
>> liquibase or dbdiff you have discussed below.
>> 
>> Suresh
>> 
>>> On Dec 27, 2016, at 1:31 PM, Miller, Mark <mmil...@sdsc.edu 
>>> <mailto:mmil...@sdsc.edu>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thanks Anuj, For taking the time to send that, it was super helpful, and 
>>> answered my questions.
>>> Mark
>>>   <>
>>> From: Anuj Bhandar [mailto:bhandar.a...@gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:bhandar.a...@gmail.com>] 
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2016 10:23 AM
>>> To: dev@airavata.apache.org <mailto:dev@airavata.apache.org>
>>> Subject: Re: Database Version Control for Airavata
>>>  
>>> HI Mark,
>>> 
>>> Liquibase is a Database Version control tool, it gives you the ability to 
>>> rollback any changes (commit) on DataBase Schema just like GIT, but it will 
>>> only be useful for future builds, i.e. if you implement Liquibase in 
>>> current build, make changes on top of that, then those changes can be 
>>> rolled back, in short the version to be rolled back should be present in 
>>> the repository. Works just like GIT for source code.
>>> 
>>> But if you are referring to Airavata's scenario, i.e. we have two version 
>>> of DB schema's, one for Development and the other for Production, then a 
>>> tool like DBDiff (https://github.com/DBDiff/DBDiff 
>>> <https://github.com/DBDiff/DBDiff>) compares the two different versions and 
>>> generates Delta SQL scripts, which can be run on the DB schema's, DBDiff 
>>> has the ability to generate both UP and Down Migration scripts.
>>> 
>>> I hope that I have answered the question, please revert back if you need 
>>> further details.
>>> 
>>> Thanks and best regards,
>>> Anuj Bhandar
>>> MS Computer Science
>>> Indiana University Bloomington
>>> +1 812 361 9414
>>> 
>>> On 12/27/2016 9:19 AM, Christie, Marcus Aaron wrote:
>>> Mark, 
>>>  
>>> Anuj might know more about this but I thought I would chime in. I believe 
>>> this is something that database migration tools can do. I haven’t tried 
>>> that though. Here’s Liquibase’s support for rollback scripts: 
>>> http://www.liquibase.org/documentation/rollback.html 
>>> <http://www.liquibase.org/documentation/rollback.html>
>>>  
>>> Marcus
>>>  
>>> On Dec 25, 2016, at 8:49 AM, Miller, Mark <mmil...@sdsc.edu 
>>> <mailto:mmil...@sdsc.edu>> wrote:
>>>  
>>> Hi Anuj,
>>>  
>>> Very interesting. I had a question, rather than a vote. We have found (at 
>>> CIPRES) that we really wish we had the ability to make DB schema changes 
>>> and test them and roll them back if there is an issue with what we tried. I 
>>> wonder if this is something the new or existing DBs can do in AIravata?
>>>  
>>> Mark
>>>  
>>> From: Pierce, Marlon [mailto:marpi...@iu.edu <mailto:marpi...@iu.edu>] 
>>> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 10:11 AM
>>> To: dev@airavata.apache.org <mailto:dev@airavata.apache.org>
>>> Subject: Re: Database Version Control for Airavata
>>>  
>>> +1 for looking into Liquibase. I’d be interested to hear other opinions.
>>> 
>>> Marlon
>>>  
>>> From: Anuj Bhandar <bhandar.a...@gmail.com <mailto:bhandar.a...@gmail.com>>
>>> Reply-To: "dev@airavata.apache.org <mailto:dev@airavata.apache.org>" 
>>> <dev@airavata.apache.org <mailto:dev@airavata.apache.org>>
>>> Date: Friday, December 23, 2016 at 12:55 PM
>>> To: "dev@airavata.apache.org <mailto:dev@airavata.apache.org>" 
>>> <dev@airavata.apache.org <mailto:dev@airavata.apache.org>>
>>> Subject: Database Version Control for Airavata
>>>  
>>> Hello Dev,
>>> Merry Christmas ! Hope you guys are doing good.
>>> As a part of the Airavata 0.17 release, we are faced with a industry 
>>> standard problem of migrating our old master database to the new 
>>> Development database, the effort needed to manually write migration SQL 
>>> scripts is huge.
>>> Hence for the current release, I'm relying on DBDiff 
>>> (http://dbdiff.github.io/DBDiff/ <http://dbdiff.github.io/DBDiff/>) for 
>>> generating Delta SQL scripts for the entire database and manually write 
>>> scripts for complex DB schema changes.
>>> To address the issue in future releases, I propose to implement a database 
>>> version control system like Liquibase (http://www.liquibase.org/ 
>>> <http://www.liquibase.org/>) for Airavata, this will help automate the 
>>> creation of delta scripts and also adding additional functionality like 
>>> backward compatibility between releases.
>>> Please feel to suggest changes and also comment about the products I'm 
>>> using to accomplish these tasks.
>>> Thanks and best regards,
>>> Anuj Bhandar
>>> MS Computer Science
>>> Indiana University Bloomington
>>> +1 812 361 9414
>>>  
>>>  
>> 
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