Creating Custom Regex Rules for Code Analysis in Flyway

Every development team has its own coding standards. While Flyway provides built-in rules focused on security and data protection, teams quickly find they need additional checks to maintain SQL code quality and consistency across their projects. This article will walk through the ways of defining and testing custom rules, provides a starter pack of custom rules for common code smells, and then explains how to manage your rules efficiently as your rule library grows. Read more

Getting Started with Flyway SQL Code Analysis Rules

Before you apply pending SQL migration scripts, Flyway can automatically check them for a range of code smells. The check -code command can perform a static code analysis on these scripts to check that they comply with a set of rules designed to encourage good coding practices. You can opt to use SQL Fluff, provide your own Regex rules, or use both. This article explains how Flyway's regex-based code checks work and how to start running checks on Flyway-managed databases. Read more

Cross-RDBMS Code Quality Reports in Flyway

Before you commit your Flyway migration files, you may want to run some automated checks for style or 'code smells'. This article demonstrates how to run basic cross-RDBMS code quality checks using SQL Fluff. We analyze the results in PowerShell to produce reports and analytics on the number or types of issues found. Read more

Reviewing SQL Migration Files Before a Flyway Migration

Your finger is hovering over the 'enter' key to set off the Flyway "migrate" command, but you hesitate. There is a large stack of migration files for this project: don't all these files need to be checked first? Yes, they do, but how? This article demonstrates how, once armed with the file path locations of all the scripts, you can use PowerShell to search them for various purposes such to review them for potentially disruptive changes, or run code quality checks, or to verify documentation standards. Read more

Searching a Flyway Database

As a database gets larger, and development more complex, so it becomes increasingly necessary to be able to search for strings in the source files and the database itself. Maybe you need to find when a table first got created, when a foreign key was added, or to find out which tables lack documentation. I'll show you how to answer these sorts of questions by running simple 'wildcard' searches on your Flyway migration files, or source files, as well as more targeted searches on certain parts of your database model. Read more

Automating Flyway Development Chores using Database Diagrams

If you can produce a quick Entity-Relationship diagram for any version of a database, you'll have a simple way to 'sanity check' it for unreferenced tables, missing keys and other design flaws. This article shows how to auto-generate these diagrams when running a migration, using Flyway Teams and PowerShell. Read more

Managing Database Code Quality in a Flyway Development

In this article, I'll discuss the most important quality metrics for a database development, and then practical ways to ensure that a Flyway-managed database is designed and implemented to a high enough standard that it is reliable to use. Read more

Dry Runs for Database Migrations using Flyway

How Dry Run scripts work, and how they can be used to deliver a single-script release artifact to Staging, verify placeholder substitutions in SQL migration scripts, and simplify team code reviews. Read more

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

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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