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We're using Delphix too. Complements an approach like this, doesn't replace it. We use Liquibase to support the schema-as-code concept; it's enforced by no one outside Sr. DBAs being able to make such changes directly in anything other than Dev (lower-than-QA) environments.

Delphix is terrific for having production-like data in your test environments ("like," because you'd better be masking sensitive information from prod before it gets written in test.

The issue we've had with Delphix is performance. It absolutely pounds on the storage system, and tends to suck up all available bandwidth and CPU that's made available to it. If you resource it properly, it's amazing.