Security and compliance
Ensure data security and compliance with data masking, monitoring, and change traceability
Why Redgate Flyway Enterprise is the tool of choice for database code reviews
Development teams face increasing pressure to deliver faster while maintaining compliance standards. Traditional approaches catch database security and compliance issues too late, often during deployment or after changes reach production. This creates costly rework cycles, delays critical releases, and puts organizations at regulatory risk.
Flyway Enterprise’s code reviews embed policy-as-code into the development lifecycle, helping teams catch risky changes early, enforce standards consistently, and deploy with confidence.
Policy-as-code for database development
Flyway Enterprise brings automated code reviews into the development workflow, so teams can:
- Detect risky code patterns before deployment using enterprise-grade policies
- Enforce organizational standards consistently across teams, databases, and environments
- Integrate seamlessly into existing CI/CD pipelines for immediate feedback
- Reduce manual review burden while maintaining governance quality
“With all of the tests in place, they can make big changes and they don’t have to worry about remembering all of the database migrations. It just all flows through, so developers deliver faster and they’re more confident.”
Built for enterprise scale and complexity
Flyway Enterprise's code reviews scale to meet the demands of large, regulated organizations:
- Mission-critical database with complex schemas and dependencies
- High change velocity environments with automated validation of database changes against security, compliance and quality rules
- Distributed architectures with consistent standards across sharded or multi-tenant database deployments
- Regulatory requirements in financial services, healthcare, and other regulated industries
Built-in policy engines
Flyway Enterprise combines the comprehensive linting capabilities of SQLFluff and the flexibility of Regex-based policy creation, along with additional Redgate-authored policies, to enforce security and compliance.
| Capability | SQLFluff | Regex Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Style, syntax, maintainability, context-aware analysis | Custom security patterns, org-specific policies, pattern matching |
| Policy creation | Pre-built Redgate library + configuration file | Simple TOML configuration |
| Strength | Understands SQL structure and context | Flexible keyword and pattern detection |
| Use cases | Code formatting, SQL best practices, structural validation | Keyword blocking, naming enforcement, compliance flags |
Comprehensive database platform support
Flyway’s code reviews support a variety of databases; it allows you to apply consistent governance standards across database environments and reduces complexity in multi-platform architectures.
It also helps developers switching between teams and technologies to ensure best practices and policies are being enforced.
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Flyway Enterprise’s code reviews support multiple integration points across your software delivery lifecycle, allowing teams to choose their starting point based on their current maturity and comfort level. This flexibility means you're not forcing every team to adopt the same process at the same pace, instead, each team can strengthen governance incrementally without disrupting their existing workflows.
- During development: Developers get fast feedback as they write SQL scripts.
- CI/CD pipelines: Gate deployments on passing compliance policies using the flyway check -code command. This provides a final safety check before production, giving operations teams confidence that governance standards have been met.
- Technical debt review: Expand analysis scope beyond pending migrations to audit existing database code, helping teams systematically identify and address legacy compliance gaps.
Teams can also configure policy severity—warnings, errors, or disabled—to control how strictly standards are enforced. This enables safe integration into pipelines, allowing teams to surface issues without blocking releases and fine-tune policies before enforcing them.
“Redgate Flyway Enterprise has not only standardized our processes, but reduced errors and improved documentation across the teams.”
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