Redgate acquires Flyway DB

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  This is awesome that Redgate will be able to support databases outside SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL.  Pardon me for poking the bear, but from 50,000 ft view, it appears Flyaway competes directly with SQL Change Automation (ReadyRoll) and with SQL Source Control.  (Granted at the 50 ft view, both of these other tools integrate much more deploy with SQL Server where Flyaway is database agnostic as it connects to any JDBC data source.)
  
  What is the long-term vision of these 3 tools in the Redgate portfolio?  Will they grow together?  Will some become obsolete?  Will they remain separate, serving different communities in different ways like Studio 3T?

  robrich July 25, 2019 16:23

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  Hi Rob,
  Yes, you're right. Flyway and ReadyRoll (the "migrations runner" bit, not the IDE integration and script generation) are based on the same concepts. The former evolved in support of the predominently Java-focused community, and the latter in the Microsoft-centric ecosystem.
  
  There are currently no plans to make one or the other obsolete. There are clearly benefits of standardising on a single piece of technology, but this would be an engineering call for Redgate, and wouldn't impact Redgate's users. This is because ReadyRoll's and Flyway script runner capabilities are pretty much analogous, and where they're not, we're aiming to align over time. If at some point in the future we make the decision to plumb in Flyway as the "engine" running the scripts instead of ReadyRoll, it should be completely transparent to end users.
  
  Following on from a Down Tools Week project in 2016 where we demonstrated the concept in a working prototype (thanks, @EdPiairo, who provided feedback at the time), we have now recently begun building Change Automation (for Oracle) based on Flyway's engine and project format, and we are likely to follow with PostgreSQL and MySQL (undecided which order). If any FoRGs are using non-SQL Server databases, and are willing to give us feedback on early alpha releases, we'd love to hear from you. For those who have used SQL Change Automation (ReadyRoll) before, the experience and workflows should be very similar.
  
  Best regards,
  
  David

  David Atkinson July 25, 2019 21:26

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  @David Atkinson this is a very detailed and thoughtful response.  Thanks for the clarity here.

  robrich July 26, 2019 16:42

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  That's fantastic news and very good direction!

  KamilN July 30, 2019 14:51

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  This is a pretty big deal. Can we talk/tweet about this publicly?
  
  I assume yes, since the press release looks like it's already gone out, but I just wanted to check here that it's OK with you guys before I go and draw attention to something that you weren't planning to shout about yet.

  AlexYates July 31, 2019 15:58

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  OK - I assume it's fine. Axel has already tweeted and blogged about it:
  
  https://flywaydb.org/blog/next-chapter
  

  AlexYates July 31, 2019 15:59

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  Hi @AlexYates,
  
  Thanks for your message. It's fine to share the press release or Axel's blog post with your networks. 
  
  Cheers, 
  
  Roseanna

  Roseanna July 31, 2019 16:08

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  Yes, it is certainly good to cater for those application developers who are more comfortable with a migrations approach, and Flyway is a popular system. I hope that Redgate continues to ensure that SCA offers give first-class features and support for the 'static' approach to database deployment, which is more popular with database developers

  Phil_Fact0r August 29, 2019 15:09

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  This is awesome news. I have been using both  flyway  and Redgate for years now so I'm excited to see what Redgate does next with flyway

  TheMatelix August 30, 2019 06:14

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