Flyway

Flyway vs Liquibase

Reading Time: 2 minutes Introduction There are two open source-based tools for database version control Liquibase and Flyway. These are popular options for organizing database changes and database versioning, deploying changes when they need to be deployed, and tracking what’s been deployed. Those who have ever developed any software will tell you, you shouldn’t develop application code without version control and also same is true for database code. So, Continue Reading

Introduction to database migrations using Flyway

Reading Time: 3 minutes Let us first understand why are database migrations necessary? Assume that we have a project called Shiny and it’s primary deliverable is a piece of software called Shiny Soft that connects to a database called Shiny DB. We not only have to deal with one copy of our environment, but with several. So the simplest view of our problem will translate to: