Liquibase Command changelogSync

Assume a ChangeLog file is running against the database, but only some of the DDL or DML ChangeSets are required to be deployed, The rest should execute, but Liquibase will check in DATABASECHANGELOG table and since those non-required ChangeSets are still not executed so will try to execute every time.

Liquibase provides a ChangelogSync command that makes some ChangeSet as executed in DATABASECHANGELOG table, without actually executing it, it will mark them as executed.

execute the below query in the database

create database appleDb;
use appleDb;
create table apple (apple_id bigint not null AUTO_INCREMENT , apple_name varchar(255), available CHAR(1), current_date_time datetime default now(), primary key (apple_id), CONSTRAINT uqniue_apple_name UNIQUE (apple_name)) engine=InnoDB;
insert into  apple (apple_name, available, current_date_time) values ("Macintosh", 'Y',  now());
insert into  apple (apple_name, available, current_date_time) values ("Fuji", 'Y',  now());
commit;

The above script will create a database, and a table and insert some data into it.

now create a changelog.mysql.xml file and add some insert ChangeSets

<?xml version="1.1" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<databaseChangeLog xmlns="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog" xmlns:ext="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext" xmlns:pro="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-ext.xsd http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro/liquibase-pro-latest.xsd http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-latest.xsd">
	<changeSet author="wesome" id="1697954384174-1">
		<insert catalogName="appledb" tableName="apple">
			<column name="apple_name" value="Gala" />
			<column name="available" value="Y" />
			<column name="current_date_time" valueDate="now()" />
		</insert>
	</changeSet>
	<changeSet author="wesome" id="1697954384174-2">
		<insert catalogName="appledb" tableName="apple">
			<column name="apple_name" value="Jonagold" />
			<column name="available" value="Y" />
			<column name="current_date_time" valueDate="now()" />
		</insert>
	</changeSet>
</databaseChangeLog>

liquibase.properties (update changeLog File file format with SQL, XML, YAML, JSON as per changelog.mysql.)

changeLogFile=changelog.mysql.xml
liquibase.command.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/appleDb?createDatabaseIfNotExist=true&autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false&allowPublicKeyRetrieval=true
liquibase.command.username= root
liquibase.command.password= rootroot

execute the command

liquibase changelogSync

The changelogSync command will not execute the ChangeSets, The same can be validated by executing the command

select * from appleDb.apple;

but will mark them as executed in DATABASECHANGELOG table, same can be verified by executing the command

select * from appleDb.DATABASECHANGELOG;

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