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Failed Database Deployments: Roll Back or Fix Forward?

This article explains the different ways to reverse or accelerate your way out of the problems caused by a failed database deployment, where a technique such as feature flags fits into your strategy, and how Flyway is designed to help you ensure both that you're fully prepared to take swift… Read more

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Rollbacks, Undos and Undonts

Rollback scripts are designed to allow us to recover safely from a failed deployment that leaves the database in an indeterminate state. They must check exactly what needs to be reverted before doing so. If you work with an RDBMS that cannot support transaction DDL rollback they are vital. This… Read more

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Automating Flyway Undos

How to auto-generate first-cut undo scripts for every Flyway migration. For every new version of a database created by a Flyway versioned migration, we compare it to a 'source' directory containing object-level build scripts for the previous version. The SQL Compare engine does the rest, producing the associated undo script… Read more

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Dealing with Failed SQL Migrations in MariaDB or MySQL

This article explains the fastest ways to restore the previous version of the database, to recover from a failed Flyway migration that leaves the database in an indeterminate state, and then how to adapt your database development process to avoid these problems. Read more

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Database Updates: Roll Back or Fix Forward?

Phil Factor's take on the best ways to reverse or accelerate your way out of the problems caused by a failed database update. Read more

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Failed Database Deployments: Roll Back or Fix Forward?

Rollbacks, Undos and Undonts

Automating Flyway Undos

Dealing with Failed SQL Migrations in MariaDB or MySQL

Database Updates: Roll Back or Fix Forward?

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Database monitoring and observability

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AI data readiness

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SQL Toolbelt Essentials

Product: Flyway

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