Liquibase Command rollbackToDate

LIquibase supports rollback in multiple ways. the rollbackToDate will revert the executed ChangeSets to the date specified. Liquibase will revert all the changes executed from the date specified till today.

Liquibase supports YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS or YYYY-MM-DD'T'HH:MM:SS format to specify the date and time. it supports only date or time as well.

<?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="1692446190573-1">
		<createTable catalogName="appledb" tableName="apple">
			<column autoIncrement="true" name="apple_id" type="BIGINT">
				<constraints nullable="false" primaryKey="true" />
			</column>
			<column name="apple_name" type="VARCHAR(255)" />
			<column defaultValueComputed="CURRENT_TIMESTAMP" name="current_date_time" type="datetime" />
		</createTable>
		<rollback>
			<dropTable tableName="apple" />
		</rollback>
	</changeSet>
	<changeSet author="wesome" id="1692701200879-2">
		<insert catalogName="appledb" tableName="apple">
			<column name="apple_name" value="Fuji" />
			<column name="current_date_time" valueDate="now()" />
		</insert>
		<rollback>
			<delete tableName="apple">
				<where>
					apple_name = 'Fuji'
				</where>
			</delete>
		</rollback>
	</changeSet>
	<changeSet author="wesome" id="1692701200879-3">
		<insert catalogName="appledb" tableName="apple">
			<column name="apple_name" value="Gala" />
			<column name="current_date_time" valueDate="now()" />
		</insert>
		<rollback>
			<delete tableName="apple">
				<where>
					apple_name = 'Gala'
				</where>
			</delete>
		</rollback>
	</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

Run command liquibase update

The table is created with all the records, the same can be verified by running the query

SELECT * FROM appleDb.apple;

To revert to a specific date, run the command liquibase rollbackToDate --date=2023-10-14