Flyway and Simple Source Control
How to integrate Flyway database development with Source control, so that you can track what changes were made and who made them as well as which objects changed between versions, and how.
2022-05-20
Vendors/3rd-party Products
[Re-post] Tackling the Challenges of Hybrid Estates
It's an oldie but a goodie: Redgate Advocate Grant Fritchey takes us through how best to manage hybrid estates. Read on to find his expert recommendations.
2022-05-18
Summit Learning Pathways Announced
Whatever your learning objectives or career goals are, Summit has the guided learning pathways you need to achieve them. Summit attendees can choose from 9 learning pathways, featuring over 40 industry-leading speakers, which have been designed to walk you through a specific set of learning outcomes to ensure that you leave Summit with the skills you need to make an immediate impact in your organization. Presenters include Ginger Grant, John Morehouse, Erin Stellato, Dustin Vannoy, and many more!
2022-05-13
Flyway How-tos: a User’s Perspective
Flyway provides a database-independent way for a team to track, manage and apply database changes, while maintaining strict control of database versions. It updates a database by running a series of versioned migration scripts, in order, and keeps track of all the changes in a special "schema history" table. It sounds simple, but it is easy to derail this team discipline if you don't find the right answers to the following questions…
2022-05-09
Database Development Visibility using Flyway and PowerShell
The payback of DevOps is not simply in automation but in using that automation to increase the visibility of the development processes. This article demonstrates way to make Flyway developments more visible, regardless of your RDBMS, such as by providing a detailed migration history, and change reports that reveal detail of what is going on to all involved.
2022-05-06
What is the Flyway Teamwork Framework?
My FlywayTeamwork PowerShell framework is designed to help get you started quickly with developing databases, using Flyway versioned migrations. It introduces a PowerShell task library, and automation, to take care of repetitive chores. It will also help you get to grips with the practicalities of using Flyway in team-based development. This article explains the basics of its design and provides a demo how to use Flyway to migrate a PostgreSQL database, while generating a high-level narrative of the changes made between versions.
2022-05-04
Creating Flyway Migration Files using Redgate Schema Comparison Tools
How to use Redgate's schema comparison engines to generate object-level scripts for every database version that Flyway creates, and then use them to create ad-hoc, Flyway-compatible migration files.
2022-05-02
Continuous Data Protection with SQL Data Catalog 2.0 and Data Masking
SQL Data Catalog 2.0 provides a simple, policy-driven approach to data protection, through data masking. It can now automatically generate the static masking sets that Data Masker will use to protect your entire database, directly from the data classification metadata held within the catalog.
2022-04-27
The 10 Benefits of Monitoring for Leaders
A third-party database monitoring tool is an investment that drives enormous value for the bottom line of a business in ten key ways, from simplifying cloud migration to retaining talent. Here's how.
2022-04-25
Getting an Overview of Changes to a PostgreSQL Database using Flyway
How to use Flyway and PowerShell to automatically generate a database build script every time Flyway successfully created a new version. You can then investigate schema changes between versions simply by using a Diff tool to compare build scripts.
2022-04-22
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