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Try Before You Commit in Flyway

Sometimes we want to check whether it is possible to run a Flyway migration without error, but not actually make the changes. We might just need to 'sanity test' the performance of a migration on the Staging server, for example. By using a placeholder 'switch' to trigger a SQL Exception,… Read more

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Performance Testing Databases with Flyway and PowerShell

Performance tests are central to the quality of the database changes we deliver because they ensure that any business process that accesses the database continues to return its results in an acceptable time. When Flyway creates a new version of the database, it is the ideal time to run these… Read more

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Running Unit and Integration Tests during Flyway Migrations

In this article I'll give a practical example of developing a database, with Flyway, in such a way that it is automatically tested with whatever unit tests and integration tests you specify whenever you migrate the branch you're working on to the next version. If a test fails, you can… Read more

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Basic Functional Testing for Databases Using Flyway

How to use Flyway Teams to run basic tests whenever it successfully executes a migration, checking that all the business processes supported by our database always produce the expected results. Read more

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Debugging Flyway Callbacks and Migrations that Use Placeholders

Placeholders come in very handy in Flyway, but troubleshooting the SQL migration and callback scripts that use them can be tricky. This articles demonstrates how to develop, test and debug these scripts in a tool designed for these tasks, such as SSMS, leaving Flyway to do what it's designed for,… Read more

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A Flyway Teams Callback Script for Auditing SQL Migrations

Demonstrates a cross-database PowerShell callback script for reporting on and auditing Flyway migrations, telling you which scripts were used to create each version, when they were run, who ran them and more. Read more

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Scripting with Flyway Teams and PowerShell

During the development cycle, the mechanics of reliable delivery must not be allowed to dominate the design work. With script callbacks in Flyway Teams, many of the development tasks required during a database migration can happen automatically, producing reports, build scripts, code reviews, or documentation. Read more

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One Flyway Migration Script for Diverse Database Systems

How to create a single set of SQL migration scripts for Flyway that we can use across multiple database systems, or for all regional variants of a database. Read more

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Checking for Missing Module References in a SQL Server Database Using Flyway

There are certain checks that need to be done after a database migration is complete. One good example of this is the check that a migration script, such as one that merges changes from a branch into main, doesn't cause 'invalid objects' (a.k.a. 'missing references') in your databases. I'll… 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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Try Before You Commit in Flyway

Performance Testing Databases with Flyway and PowerShell

Running Unit and Integration Tests during Flyway Migrations

Basic Functional Testing for Databases Using Flyway

Debugging Flyway Callbacks and Migrations that Use Placeholders

A Flyway Teams Callback Script for Auditing SQL Migrations

Scripting with Flyway Teams and PowerShell

One Flyway Migration Script for Diverse Database Systems

Checking for Missing Module References in a SQL Server Database Using Flyway

Getting Data In and Out of SQL Server Flyway Builds

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