Oracle Support in drm-cli v1.1

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We've been getting questions about Oracle support since the v1.1 announcement, so this week we're digging into it properly.

Oracle deployments have a reputation — deservedly — for being painful. The tooling is fragmented, the licensing is expensive, and the gap between "we have Liquibase or Flyway set up" and "we have a repeatable, audited release process" is wider than it should be.

drm-cli v1.1 adds Oracle to the list of supported databases, sitting on top of Liquibase or Flyway (whichever you're already using), and giving you the same release management layer we've had for SQL Server from the start:

• 📋 Release history — every deployment logged with timestamp, user, and outcome
• 🔒 Encrypted credentials — Oracle connection strings encrypted at rest
• 🔁 Automated retries — failed steps retry before the release is marked failed
• 📜 Pre/post scripts — always-run steps before and after your migration tool runs
• 🗂️ Multi-solution releases — Oracle + SQL Server + PostgreSQL in a single coordinated release

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This week on the blog

We published a full step-by-step tutorial on dev.to:

→ Deploy to Oracle with drm-cli + Flyway: No Enterprise License Required

It covers:

• Installing and configuring drm-cli for an Oracle target
• Setting up your solution.yaml for a Flyway-backed Oracle deployment
• Encrypting your Oracle connection string with drm-cli encrypt
• Running a release and reading the history back out

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Discussion prompts

We're genuinely curious about your Oracle setups. A few questions:

1. What tooling are you currently using for Oracle deployments? Liquibase, Flyway, SQLcl, custom scripts, something else?
2. What's the biggest pain point? Connection management, schema versioning, rollback, environment promotion, audit trail?
3. Are you running Oracle alongside other databases? We built multi-solution support partly because a lot of shops have Oracle for some systems and SQL Server or PostgreSQL for others — curious how common that is in practice.

Drop your thoughts below. We read everything and respond to every comment.

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Quick links

• 🔗 drm-cli repo
• 📖 Documentation
• 🐛 Open an issue
• 💬 Full discussion board

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