How do we capture static data in our Flyway projects, and then track and deploy any changes to it, while also ensuring that our automated deployment process doesn't try to deploy static data to databases where it already exists, such as the production database? For new Flyway projects, it's quite straightforward, but for existing projects there may be complications, depending on your database development and deployment strategy. Read more
Static data is often required for the basic functioning of a database and any dependent applications. Therefore, it's vital that we can track this static data to understand how, when, and why it changed, and that we include any static data changes in our database deployments. Flyway Enterprise will now do both tasks automatically. Read more
If your database application requires 'static data' to function, then the best way to manage that data is using a view based on a derived table. This article demonstrates ways to create these views, depending on your RDBMS's capabilities, and how to build and manage them in development work, using Flyway and PowerShell. Read more