Database Migrations in Grails
Hibernate's create-drop mode is great when you're prototyping your Grails applications but once you get past the initial stages of your project you'll need to manage database changes (adding, removing, and renaming tables, columns, and indexes, refactoring data, etc.)
You can do this by hand but there are excellent tools and plugins available and in this talk we'll compare the various approaches available.
About Burt Beckwith
Burt Beckwith is a Java and Groovy developer with over ten years of experience in a variety of industries including biotech, travel, e-learning, social networking, and financial services. For the past three years he's been working with Grails and Groovy full-time. Along the way he's created over fifteen Grails plugins and made significant contributions to several others. He was the technical editor for Grails in Action.
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