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Splatting in Flyway to Avoid Tedious Typing

This article covers splatting, explaining the advantages of using it with Flyway. We create reusable parameter sets and combine them as needed, using PowerShell. This simplifies multi-parameter Flyway commands, and makes it easier to execute consecutive Flyway operations within a pipeline. Read more

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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

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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… Read more

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Simplifying Data Import and Export for Database Development

Extracting and importing data for development and testing is made trickier due to issues such as constraints, dependencies, and special data types. This article introduces a cross-RDBMS solution with JSON for data storage and PowerShell cmdlets that use ODBC to help automate extraction and import, and JSON Schema for validation.… Read more

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Making Full Use of Environment Variables for Flyway Settings

Environment Variables make interactive use of Flyway much easier, and they are essential when developing callback scripts. This article explains the range of configuration details you can provide and how, and demos a PowerShell script to auto-convert the parameter values stored in Flyway .conf files into environment variables. Read more

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Forks in Flyway Database Development Work

Database forking allows teams to multi-task, working on different strands of development in parallel. It also allows them to manage several 'variants' of a production database, such as for SaaS applications with client-specific schema requirements. This article explains how Flyway supports and simplifies database forking, via use of Flyway's locations,… Read more

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Getting Started with TOML Configuration in Flyway

This article discusses Flyway's transition from CONF to TOML configuration files. It highlights the advantages of TOML, such as improved readability, flexibility in managing complex database configurations, and support for specifying multiple database environments. It also discusses a few of the differences to be aware of when switching existing Flyway… Read more

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Flyway's Validate Command Explained Simply

The Validate command aims to ensure that Flyway can reliably reproduce an existing version of a database from the source migration scripts by warning you if files are retrospectively added, removed or altered that would prevent it from doing so. Validation errors are Flyway's warning that "the source for this… Read more

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Product: Flyway

What’s under development in Redgate Flyway

Splatting in Flyway to Avoid Tedious Typing

Finding Significant Differences in Flyway SQL Migration Code

Defusing Flyway Validation Errors using Smarter Checksum Comparisons

Simplifying Data Import and Export for Database Development

Unlock the full potential of database change management with Flyway Enterprise

Making Full Use of Environment Variables for Flyway Settings

Forks in Flyway Database Development Work

Getting Started with TOML Configuration in Flyway

Flyway's Validate Command Explained Simply

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Security and compliance

Database monitoring and observability

Database change management

Productivity and workflow automation

AI data readiness

Database modernization

Efficiency and cost optimization

Cloud migration and workload optimization

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Redgate Monitor

SQL Toolbelt Essentials

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