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“You fixed a bug in QA — great! But did that fix go into version control and get tested and deployed everywhere? If not, you just created drift, and more problems down the line.” Peter Kruis, Microsoft SQL Engineer at Monin Fixing a bug in the environment where it appears feels like progress, but without a proper process, it creates fragility everywhere else.

“We want developers to break things – just not for the customers. If all our tests are green, I get nervous that we’re not testing deep enough.” Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri, Principal Software Eng. Manager, Microsoft Azure SQL Naga Santhosh, Sunny to most, leads a team that ships changes to Azure SQL databases worldwide. Those deployments must be fast, frequent, and invisible to customers. That kind of reliability doesn’t come from playing it safe during development.

FinTech is more than just a fast-growing industry; it can drive economic prosperity and improve quality of life, not just in the traditional financial hub of London, but across the whole of the UK. The sector’s success, especially outside the capital, is critical for regional growth and a more balanced national economy.

I’m pleased to announce that Flyway continues to improve its support for Oracle databases with every release, focusing on performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. The most recent updates to Flyway Desktop and Flyway CLI specifically target a long-standing challenge for Oracle users: unnecessary table rebuilds when migrating to partitions or when managing partitions.