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Bulk Loading Data via a PowerShell Script in Flyway

The test data management strategy for any RDBMS needs to include a fast, automated way of allowing developers to "build-and-fill" multiple copies of any version of the database, for ad-hoc or automated testing. The technique presented in this article uses a baseline migration script to create the empty database at… Read more

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Adding Test Data to Databases During Flyway Migrations

How to generate "realistic but fake" SQL Server test data, using SQL Data Generator, and then use SQL Data Compare to produce an INSERT script that Flyway can run to load the data into the database. The technique is useful for managing small volumes of test data or for "topping… Read more

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Test-Driven Development for Flyway Using Transactions

When you are using Flyway, you can easily adopt test-driven development practices that will allow you to test your database migration script, to make sure it works exactly as you intended, before you even let Flyway execute it. Read more

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Managing SQL Server Database Documentation during Flyway Development

How to create and maintain a 'data dictionary' for your SQL Server databases, in JSON format, which you can then use to add and update the table descriptions, whenever you build a new version using Flyway. Read more

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Running Dynamic Code Quality Checks on Flyway Databases: Table Smells

How to extend the range of SQL code analysis, during database development, to include dynamic analysis of the database metadata. This will allow regular checks for problems with the design of your tables and indexes ("table smells") that can affect database performance and data integrity. Read more

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Running SQL Code Analysis during Flyway Migrations

A set of PowerShell automation script tasks for running database build and migrations tasks. This article describes the SQL code analysis task, which will check the syntax of the SQL code in your databases and your migration scripts for 'code smells'. Read more

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Getting Data In and Out of SQL Server Flyway Builds

This article provides SQL "bulk copy" routines to extract data from and load it into a SQL Server database, rapidly, and demonstrates a way to automatically bulk insert the test data in a Flyway build, using a SQL callback. Read more

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Bulk Loading Data via a PowerShell Script in Flyway

Adding Test Data to Databases During Flyway Migrations

Test-Driven Development for Flyway Using Transactions

Managing SQL Server Database Documentation during Flyway Development

Running Dynamic Code Quality Checks on Flyway Databases: Table Smells

Running SQL Code Analysis during Flyway Migrations

Getting Data In and Out of SQL Server Flyway Builds

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Database monitoring and observability

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Productivity and workflow automation

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Database modernization

Efficiency and cost optimization

Cloud migration and workload optimization

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