Imagine the hassles of running your database migrations manually on your Dev, Staging and Prod. Server. Flyway is an extremely convenient open source database migration tool. Migrations can be written in plain SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL or Java. Flyway acts as a version control for your DB’s. It is easy to set up and has plugins for various built automation tools & application frameworks.

1. Automate Database Migration
using Flyway framework
Karthickeyan Narasimhan | @hellokarthic
Product Developer, Freshworks

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3. About Me
● Product Developer at Freshworks Technologies Private Limited.
● Over 2+ years of Experience in Web Development
● FOSS Enthusiast
● Mozilla Rep(India) & Tech Speaker
● Mozilla Campus Advisory Committee Board Member

4. ● A Tale of Manual DB Migration
● What are the ways to solve the DB Migration problem
● How flyway came to our rescue
● Live Demo on applying flyway to your project
● Challenges we faced while using Flyway
● Q&A, Resource sharing
Overview

5. A Tale of Manual DB Migration

6. Ways to solve?

7. Come let’s fly with Flyway!
Supports Plain SQL / Java based migrations
6 major commands- Info, Migrate, Repair, Clean, Baseline & Validate
Multiple & Simple Setup - Supports Gradle, Maven, ANT, etc
Flyway is an Open source tool for managing Database migration -KISS Approach
Conventions over Configuration

8. ● Usually contains DDL statements
● Or reference data, data fixes.
○ Did we change the country code(or currency) table on this
machine?
● Use JDBC code for complex migration
○ Not checksummed by default unlike SQL migrations.
What’s in a Migration?

9. build.gradle

10. Naming Conventions

11. Let’s see in Action
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12. How you did that?
● Working with maintenance branches
● Working with feature branches
● Working with lots of migrations

13. Use Case 3
Use Case 1
Use Case 2
Use Case 3
Problem: Working with maintenance branches

14. ● DB prod schema evolves linearly
● Ensure maintenance migrations happen before
migrations belonging to later release
● use major.minor version scheme for maintenance
○ V1.1 comes after V1 but before V2
○ In practice
V001_01__increase_comment_size.sql
Use Case 3
Solution: Working with maintenance branchesUse Case 1
Use Case 2
Use Case 3

15. Use Case 3Use Case 3
Use Case 1
Use Case 2
Use Case 3
Problem: Working with feature branches

16. Use Case 3
Use Case 1
Use Case 2
Use Case 3
Solution: Working with feature branches
V2018_01_01_2330__Add_newTable.sql

17. Use Case 3
Use Case 1
Use Case 2
Use Case 3
Solution: Working with feature branches

18. Use Case 3
Use Case 1
Use Case 2
Use Case 3
Problem: Working with lot of migrations
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19. ● Squashing migrations
● Squash all applied migration files into
one or two files
○ DDL+Reference data
● Use baseline
gradle flywaybaseline -Dflyway.baselineVersion=<version>
Use Case 3
Use Case 1
Use Case 2
Use Case 3
Solution: Working with lot of migrations

20. What are you waiting for?

21. How to Contribute?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flyway
https://flywaydb.org/documentation/contribute/website/
https://flywaydb.org/documentation/contribute/code/

22. https://tinyurl.com/DevDayDaNang
Resources

23. Image Source: From the movie “A Serious Man”

24. Karthickeyan Narasimhan
Product Developer, Freshworks
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