SQLfy: Reconstructing Your Database Schema from 500 Migration Files
I’ve been working on a codebase with over 300 Flyway migrations, and at some point I realized something uncomfortable: nobody on the team could tell you what the schema actually...
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SQLfy: Reconstructing Your Database Schema from 500 Migration Files
I’ve been working on a codebase with over 300 Flyway migrations, and at some point I realized something uncomfortable: nobody on the team could tell you what the schema actually looks like. The migrations are sequential, append-only, and opaque. Each one makes a small change — add a column here, drop an index there — but the cumulative effect is...
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