Security and compliance
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Why Redgate Flyway Enterprise is the tool of choice for database code reviews
Development teams face increasing pressure to deliver faster while maintaining compliance standards. Traditional approaches catch database security and compliance issues too late, often during deployment or after changes reach production. This creates costly rework cycles, delays critical releases, and puts organizations at regulatory risk.
Flyway Enterprise’s automated code reviews embed policy-as-code into the development lifecycle, helping teams catch risky changes early, enforce standards consistently, and deploy with confidence.
AI generates the code. Flyway governs what happens next
AI coding tools are accelerating the pace of development. More pull requests, more migration scripts, shorter release cycles. What used to work well through manual review alone can start to place strain on reviewers.
Flyway Enterprise helps teams scale their existing code review practices without turning reviews into a bottleneck. Automated policy checks run directly in the pipeline, catching common risks and enforcing standards consistently before code reaches shared environments. That way, database teams and senior engineers spend less time checking for common issues, and more time reviewing complex or high-impact changes.
Policy-as-code for database development
Flyway Enterprise brings automated code reviews into the development workflow, so teams can:
- Detect risky code patterns before deployment using enterprise-grade policies
- Enforce organizational standards consistently across teams, databases, and environments
- Integrate seamlessly into existing CI/CD pipelines for immediate feedback
- Reduce manual review burden while maintaining governance quality
“With all of the tests in place, they can make big changes and they don’t have to worry about remembering all of the database migrations. It just all flows through, so developers deliver faster and they’re more confident.”
Built for enterprise scale and complexity
Flyway Enterprise's code reviews scale to meet the demands of large, regulated organizations:
- Mission-critical database with complex schemas and dependencies
- High change velocity environments with automated validation of database changes against security, compliance and quality rules
- Distributed architectures with consistent standards across sharded or multi-tenant database deployments
- Regulatory requirements in financial services, healthcare, and other regulated industries
Built-in policy engines
Flyway Enterprise combines the comprehensive linting capabilities of SQLFluff and the flexibility of Regex-based policy creation, along with additional Redgate-authored policies, to help you enforce security and compliance across your workflows.
| Capability | SQLFluff | Regex Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Style, syntax, maintainability, context-aware analysis | Custom security patterns, org-specific policies, pattern matching |
| Policy creation | Pre-built Redgate library + configuration file | Simple TOML configuration |
| Strength | Understands SQL structure and context | Flexible keyword and pattern detection |
| Use cases | Code formatting, SQL best practices, structural validation | Keyword blocking, naming enforcement, compliance flags |
Enforce the standards your teams already care about
Flyway Enterprise includes a proprietary library of 20+ out-of-the-box code review policies covering the coding standards our customers have told us matter most - including security, data loss prevention, code quality, and naming conventions such as singular/plural enforcement and object name prefixes.
For teams with additional or highly specific requirements, Flyway Enterprise also supports custom policies using a flexible regex-based engine. This allows organizations to extend governance beyond Flyway Enterprise’s built-in rules and enforce standards that reflect their own conventions, risk profile, and regulatory needs.
Explore Flyway Enterprise’s full policy libraryComprehensive database platform support
Flyway Enterprise’s code reviews support a variety of databases, allowing you to apply consistent governance standards across database environments and reduce complexity in multi-platform architectures.
It also helps developers switching between teams and technologies to ensure best practices and policies are being enforced.
- SQL Server (T-SQL)
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Snowflake
- IBM Db2
- SQLite
- Google BigQuery
- Amazon Redshift
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Get in touchStrengthen compliance without disruption
Flyway Enterprise’s code reviews support multiple integration points across your software delivery lifecycle, allowing teams to choose their starting point based on their current maturity and comfort level. This flexibility means you're not forcing every team to adopt the same process at the same pace, instead, each team can strengthen governance incrementally without disrupting their existing workflows.
- During development: Developers get fast feedback as they write SQL scripts.
- CI/CD pipelines: Gate deployments on passing compliance policies using the
flyway check -codecommand. This provides a final safety check before production, giving operations teams confidence that governance standards have been met. - Technical debt review: Expand analysis scope beyond pending migrations to audit existing database code, helping teams systematically identify and address legacy compliance gaps.
Teams can also configure policy severity—warnings, errors, or disabled—to control how strictly standards are enforced. This enables safe integration into pipelines, allowing teams to surface issues without blocking releases and fine-tune policies before enforcing them.
“Redgate Flyway Enterprise has not only standardized our processes, but reduced errors and improved documentation across the teams.”
Enforce database compliance consistently with policy-as-code
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