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Spring Boot Integration — Flyway/Liquibase, Auditing & Multi-Database Setups

How a schema actually evolves safely over a real application's lifetime, plus two other everyday integration concerns: automatic auditing and running against more than one database at once.

Learning objectives

  • Explain why hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update is unsafe in production and what Flyway/Liquibase replace it with.
  • Configure @EnableJpaAuditing to automatically populate creation/modification timestamps.
  • Implement soft delete correctly, including consistent query filtering.

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Spring Boot Integration — Flyway/Liquibase, Auditing & Multi-Database Setups

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