Finding Significant Differences in Flyway SQL Migration Code

This article demonstrates using PowerShell-based tokenization to compare two SQL migration files. It ignores non-functional changes like comments or formatting and pinpoints the first meaningful change in SQL logic, providing detailed feedback on its location and nature. Read more

Flyway
Database migrations
Tracking development changes
Cross-RDBMS

Defusing Flyway Validation Errors using Smarter Checksum Comparisons

This article provides a scripted SQL tokenizer script that quickly verifies whether a Flyway validation error is a real cause for concern, due to retrospective metadata changes, or just the result of a developer valiantly adding formatting and documentation to improve the code. If the changes are purely cosmetic, we can safely run Flyway repair to resume normal migrations. Read more