Tag: Flyway

There was an update to Flyway Desktop which lets you see the type of database your project is associated with, and this post shows how to get this in your list of projects.

As an example, you can see below my first project is a “SQL Server” project.

I’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for work more and more as we transition from older SSMS plugins to the standalone tool. This series looks at some tips I’ve gotten along the way.

Two Simple Steps

The first step to seeing the type of database project is to upgrade Flyway Desktop. The team is releasing basically every week. My version, upgraded before this post, is 6.9.3, so anything after this should have this capability.

The second step is you need to open your project. If I open the “DBCode” project above, it starts the comparison.

I don’t have to wait for the comparison, I can just close the project. Once I do, the type of project appears on the right side.

If you’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for awhile, you might have noticed an “Upgrade project” in the upper right. This is to upgrade the project from a JSON format to a TOML format, which doesn’t matter for you, but it does make the management of the internals of Flyway and Flyway Desktop easier for the developers.

In any case, you don’t need to upgrade the project. If I open and close a PostgreSQL project, I see this:

If I reopen the FWPoC_PostgreSQL project (named before this feature appeared), I see the upgrade is still there.

Try it out today. If you haven’t worked with Flyway Desktop, download it today. There is a free version that organizes migrations and paid versions with many more features.

Video Walkthrough

I made a quick video showing this as well. You can watch it below, or check out all the Flyway videos I’ve added:

 

I find that quite a few people using Flyway will end up with a lot of migration scripts over time. While you can certainly re-baseline and split scripts into separate folders, visualizing these over time can be hard.

The Flyway Desktop team added a nice little option that makes it easier to see new work as opposed to old work.We’ll look at that in this post.

I’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for work more and more as we transition from older SSMS plugins to the standalone tool. This series looks at some tips I’ve gotten along the way.

Lots of Migration Scripts

We might see a lot of migration scripts over time in a folder. Certainly I can see this in the file system for one of my projects.

In Flyway Desktop,  here is my view.

That is a lot of scripts. Since these are ordered as they would apply, it can be a lot of scrolling to find the ones that haven’t been applied.

However, if I click an environment on the right, I get a different view. Now I see a checkbox above the migrations that says “Only show pending migrations”.

If I click that, I see a view of the few that haven’t been applied to this environment.

A quick way to see what work has been added to the project, but not applied to other environments.

Try it out today. If you haven’t worked with Flyway Desktop, download it today. There is a free version that organizes migrations and paid versions with many more features.

Video Walkthrough

I made a quick video showing this as well. You can watch it below, or check out all the Flyway videos I’ve added:

Flyway is a command line tool with lots of options and parameters. Working with those is a pain, but we’ve made this easier in Flyway Desktop 6.5+. In this tip, see how you can add parameters to your Flyway command.

I’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for work more and more as we transition from older SSMS plugins to the standalone tool. This series looks at some tips I’ve gotten along the way.

Flyway Options

There are a lot of options in Flyway that you can use, and we added a dialog in Flyway Desktop to make it easy to construct a command line call. However, we also made the FWD tool work better recently, removing the need to save your changes.

In the migrations tab, I have all my migrations listed, and on the right side, I can see the command that would be run with the Flyway CLI.

If I click “View command”, I can see this command, which has a number of parameters by default.

However, often I want to add other parameters. Below this dialog is the Advanced settings area, which is where we add parameters.

If I click Add parameters, I get a list of all the parameters, and I can type in the list to filter them down. For example, I often want outOfOrder, so if I type “out” I see this listed.

I can select this and then enter a value for the parameter. I showed in a previous tip how you can easily copy migration numbers, which is handy for using in some of these parameter values.

Once I enter a value, I can click “Add parameter”. Of course, if I’ve done something silly, like enter an integer for a true/false value, the GUI tells me.

If I add this, then it’s reflected in the command, which is what I’d copy and paste into some deployment tool like Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy, etc.

Try it out today. If you haven’t worked with Flyway Desktop, download it today. There is a free version that organizes migrations and paid versions with many more features.

Video Walkthrough

I made a quick video showing this as well. You can watch it below, or check out all the Flyway videos I’ve added: