Once a year at Redgate we hold Down Tools Week. It’s our hack week, when we temporarily put aside our normal work and form ad-hoc teams to propose, vote on and tackle new problems. One is always a charity project, others are useful internal tools, prototype products and experiments which we might not otherwise try, and […] Read more

Flyway 6.0.0 is out! This is the first full release by Redgate, and contains many new features and improvements over Flyway 5.2.4. This version also adds more features and fixes on top of the previous beta releases. Highlights The highlights of the 6.0.0 release include: A brand new parser Firebird support Validation of migration encoding SELECT output is […] Read more

So Flyway has joined the Redgate stable… A quick word of introduction – I’m Julia Hayward, I’ve been a software engineer for 26 years, four of those at Redgate, and I’ll be looking after Flyway. This is my first blog on flywaydb.org, and after a week of learning my way around the whole of Flyway’s code, […] Read more

In early 2010 I was doing some work around deployment automation. As part of this effort, I decided to tackle the problem of rolling out database changes along with the application consistently across environments, I wanted a tool that could be tightly integrated with application deployment, worked with plain SQL, and was simple to use. […] Read more