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How to Detect Database Drift using Flyway Snapshots

Unexpected changes to a database, known as drift, can cause inconsistencies between environments and break deployments. Flyway Enterprise provides powerful techniques to catch these unexpected changes in your databases, giving teams confidence that the version of the database they test is the one they release and that the target environment… Read more

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Passing Parameters and Settings to Flyway Scripts

This article explains the various ways of using placeholders to pass information and settings to any Flyway script, to gain bit of extra flexibility in a migration run., providing examples of conditional execution, running SQL expressions using environment variables and even one of using placeholders in a callback to send… Read more

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Running Flyway Pre-Migration Checks on the Database

This article demonstrates how to run a preliminary check that issues a warning, or throws an error, if the conditions aren't met for a Flyway migration to succeed. It provides some example checks for PostgreSQL databases that use Flyway SQL callbacks to ensure the server is running the correct PostgreSQL… Read more

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Find the Version of a Flyway-managed Database

Maintaining a version of a database opens a lot of possibilities, especially if an automated process can easily grab the current version, at runtime. You might, for example, have a routine that is only appropriate after a particular version. It is also very handy to be able to associate entries… Read more

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Cross-RDBMS Version Checks in Flyway

How does one check that a database is definitively at the version that Flyway says it is? Or that a test teardown procedure leaves no trace in the database? Or verify that an undo script returns a database's metadata to that state it should be in for the version to… Read more

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Flyway Database Drift and How it Happens

Flyway's approach to database migrations is based on strict versioning, but there is a limit to what a single process can do to prevent 'drift'. This article explains how drift can happen, and why you also need source control and external processes that log changes, to prevent it. Read more

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Creating Idempotent DDL Scripts for Database Migrations

How to write idempotent DDL scripts that Flyway can run several times on a database, such as after a hotfix has already been applied directly to the production database, without causing errors. Read more

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Detecting Database Drift during Flyway Database Development

How to detect database drift prior to running a database migration, so that you can be certain that a database hasn't been subject to any 'uncontrolled' changes that could affect the migration or result in untested changes being deployed to production. Read more

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Topic: Deployment checks and safeguards

How to Detect Database Drift using Flyway Snapshots

Passing Parameters and Settings to Flyway Scripts

Running Flyway Pre-Migration Checks on the Database

Find the Version of a Flyway-managed Database

Cross-RDBMS Version Checks in Flyway

Flyway Database Drift and How it Happens

Creating Idempotent DDL Scripts for Database Migrations

Detecting Database Drift during Flyway Database Development

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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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Topic: Deployment checks and safeguards

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