flyway baseline Introducing flyway migrations into existing database

If you are trying to introduce flyway to an existing database with the schemas and tables already created, you may find flyway baseline command useful.

Let’s say you already have the migration scripts written, or perhaps dumped out of your existing DB setup, and they are:

V1__foo.sql
V2__foo_new.sql.
V3__bar.sql

You basically want to say - flyway, ignore all scripts upto V3, but if there are newer migrations, run them. To do so, you run the baseline command, like so:

$ docker run --rm -v 
  "$(pwd)"/MigrationScripts:/flyway/sql \
  boxfuse/flyway \
  -url="jdbc:<url>" \
  -baselineVersion=3 \
  baseline

The key parameter above is baselineVersion=3. Executing the above command will create the schema_version table with a single row, like so:

installed_rank	version	description	           type	     script	           checksum	installed_by	installed_on	        execution_time	success
1              3	    << Flyway Baseline >>	BASELINE	<< Flyway Baseline >>	NULL	 UserName	    2018-10-11 23:33:07.4	     0	         1

If you now, run migrate, you will see it doesn’t apply any migrations.