Setting up Liquibase with MS-SQL Server

Question

I am utilising Liquibase (www.liquibase.org) into our MVC3 SQL Server 2008 project to manage database migration/changes. However I\'m stumbling on the first hurdle: Connecting t

Answer 1

Create a properties file called liquibase.properties containing the following:

classpath=C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver\\sqljdbc_1.2\\enu\\sqljdbc.jar
driver=com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
url=jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;databaseName=test
username=myuser
password=mypass
changeLogFile=C:\\Temp\\ChangeLog.xml

liquibase will use this file when located in the same directory. Useful to simplify the command-line.

Database is updated as follows:

liquibase update

Notes:

• I'm not a SQL server user, I picked up the JDBC driver and URL details from Microsoft doco
• The "migrate" command has been deprecated.