Commands - Flyway — ContextQMD

Flyway provides a comprehensive set of commands to manage database migrations and schema evolution.

Project Setup & Management

Commands for initializing and setting up Flyway projects

Command	Tier	Description
Init	Community	Initializes a new Flyway project with default configuration and folder structure
Auth	Teams	Initiates license acquisition flow for Flyway Teams and Enterprise editions

Core commands for applying and managing database migrations

Command	Tier	Description
Add	Community	Creates new empty migration scripts following your project's naming conventions
Info	Community	Shows detailed status about the target and information about all migrations, including what's been applied and what's pending
Validate	Community	Checks for differences between the available migrations and the migrations applied to the target
Repair	Community	Repairs the schema history table by removing failed migrations and realigning checksums
Baseline	Community	Baselines an existing database by marking it as migrated up to a specific version

Commands for developing and comparing databases

Command	Tier	Description
Check Changes	Enterprise	Analyzes changes between migrations and the database
Check Code	Community	Performs code analysis on migrations
Diff	Enterprise	Compares a `source` with a `target` to identify differences
Diff Text	Enterprise	Outputs the object definitions from a differences artifact generated by the diff command
Generate	Enterprise	Generates migration scripts automatically based on schema differences from diff operations
Model	Enterprise	Creates or updates a schema model

Commands for deploying changes to a database

Command	Tier	Description
Migrate	Community	Executes pending migrations against target environment
Undo	Teams	Rolls back the most recently applied versioned migration
Check Drift	Enterprise	Detects schema drift between the database and migrations
Check DryRun	Teams	Performs a dry run of migrations to preview changes
Prepare	Enterprise	Generates a deployment script from a comparison source
Deploy	Enterprise	Executes deployment scripts against target databases
Snapshot	Enterprise	Takes snapshots of database state for comparison

Command	Tier	Description
List Engines	Community	Lists all available database engines and their versions
Clean	Community	Development only - Drops all objects in configured schemas - never use on production!