Redgate Flyway Enterprise

What do you like best about the product?

It was very easy to get started with, and it has remained reliable and trustworthy throughout the time I’ve been using it. It offers multiple features and events that help me monitor migration progress. I especially like how it makes version management and query reviews straightforward. I also appreciate having a change history, so we can see who last modified the database.

What do you dislike about the product?

They go out of their way to provide help when it’s needed, and they offer plenty of advice and suggestions to help you get started. I would definitely recommend this product to anyone who needs a robust tool for managing migrations.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It works really well for our company, and we’re happy with it. We use Redgate Flyway as the database migration tool for our application, and it makes everything much easier to manage. It also helps protect our database by preventing anyone from making arbitrary modifications.

What do you like best about the product?

postgres db snapshort and diff generate and schema compare

What do you dislike about the product?

The biggest challenge for me is the learning curve. Establishing a solid baseline on an older database with years of manual changes took more effort than I expected, and the documentation doesn’t always address those messy, real-world scenarios. The Postgres experience also feels less polished than SQL Server.

I’ve also found that the generated scripts often need manual cleanup before they’re safe to run, so I still review every script by hand. On top of that, licensing gets expensive as the number of environments grows, which is tough to justify when you’re supporting many clients. Finally, when people make changes directly in a database outside the pipeline, drift becomes a constant headache, and it takes real team discipline to prevent it.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Flyway gives us versioned, repeatable migrations that run through the same Jenkins pipeline every time, which keeps the process consistent across every environment and client. Redgate Compare then helps us spot drift and generate schema diffs whenever something has changed outside the pipeline.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that Flyway uses plain SQL, so there’s no XML or YAML format to learn, and my existing SQL scripts became migrations almost unchanged. The script I test locally is the one that runs in production, and migrations apply in strict order. The schema history table shows which version each environment is on and exactly where a failed migration stopped. I also like that GitHub Actions applies migrations to staging and then production, so our environments stay aligned without anyone touching the database manually or me comparing tables by hand before a release.

What do you dislike about the product?

My main issue with Redgate Flyway is the gap between editions. Undo migrations and dry runs, which I’d expect in a production setup, only come with the paid tiers. After trying the free edition, it was difficult to convince our founders that Flyway offered a real safety net, so I still write rollback scripts by hand for risky changes.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I no longer guess which SQL scripts have run where or compare tables by hand before a release. I commit each schema change as a versioned migration with the API code, and Redgate Flyway applies it automatically to staging and production, keeping our environments aligned.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Redgate Flyway for database migrations and can compare faster with it. I like that builds are automatically created and that there is a schema model.

What do you dislike about the product?

I would like a better configuration for comparisons.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can compare database migrations faster with Redgate Flyway.

What do you like best about the product?

It’s easy to maintain different versions of data and databases.

What do you dislike about the product?

When a build or merge fails, it’s hard to trace the root cause. Fixing the error and then rebaselining afterward is also a little complex.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem Flyway solves for us is database version control. It helps track and manage schema changes across environments, reduces manual deployment errors, and ensures everyone on the team is working with the same database version.

What do you like best about the product?

It requires zero learning curve, seamlessly integrates into CI/CD pipelines, and uses strict checksum validation to completely eliminate database drift—making automated deployments safe, predictable, and free from human error.

What do you dislike about the product?

What I dislike most is the lack of rollback capabilities in the free version and the manual effort required to write every migration script by hand. Additionally, managing version number collisions when multiple developers merge changes simultaneously can be a frustrating bottleneck for the team.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It fully automates database deployments within our CI/CD pipeline, resulting in faster, highly reliable releases and a single, version-controlled source of truth.

What do you like best about the product?

It has virtually no learning curve, integrates seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines, and relies on strict checksum validation to eliminate database drift—so automated deployments stay safe, predictable, and not dependent on human intervention.

What do you dislike about the product?

What I dislike most is that the free version doesn’t include rollback capabilities, and that every migration script has to be written by hand, which adds a lot of manual effort. On top of that, dealing with version-number collisions when multiple developers merge changes at the same time can become a frustrating bottleneck for the whole team.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problem Solved: It removes the need for manual, error-prone database updates and helps prevent environment drift.

Benefit: It fully automates database deployments within our CI/CD pipeline, which leads to faster, more reliable releases and keeps everything in a single, version-controlled source of truth.

What do you like best about the product?

What I really like is how seamless it is to migrate database changes into my local branch, along with the feature that lets me review each changed file at a glance. Also the fast response makes me productive at my job.

What do you dislike about the product?

The thing I dislike about Redgate Flyway is that every time I manually need to migrate changes. It should have AI integrated into it that automatically migrates all changes whenever there is any.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Redgate is saving a lot of time for my organisation developers and testers providing easy usage and quick response time for migration. Also the error messages it shows whenever there is any migration error are very descriptive and easy to understand for a new joiner as well. It is overall benefitting me by adding up business value and safe migration of changes keeping all developers and testers at same level of code.

What do you like best about the product?

I really like that there’s a solution for version control in databases. At my previous job, we didn’t use anything like this, and it led to a lot of headaches. Once you learn how it works and get comfortable with the functionality, it’s hard to imagine working without it.

What do you dislike about the product?

I’d say the learning curve can be challenging, especially if your team isn’t documenting current processes and keeping that documentation up to date. Redgate Flyway does offer training courses, but they could be more in-depth.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us stay consistent across our dev, QA, and prod environments by addressing configuration issues early. It also lets us review changes ahead of time, before they impact anything in production.

What do you like best about the product?

Userfriendly automation of deployments and migrations

What do you dislike about the product?

Depending on the organisation's requirements, configuration of the ADO pipeline and CLI detais can be a bit of a challenge

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Auditing and reporting of deployments