Database schema changes are hard (2017)

Re:Database schema changes are hard (2017) by recursive on Saturday March 02, 2019 @01:14AM (#19287881)

You just got done telling me that migrations are bad, but also the solution to some non-trivial deployment scenario is to just continue using migrations?

> Moving data about is always going to be a manual process.

No, it's not always.

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Re:Database schema changes are hard (2017) by djrobstep on Saturday March 02, 2019 @02:03AM (#19288010)

Did you even read it? No idea where you got "migrations are bad" from.

If moving data around within a migration isn't always a manual process, please show me the tool which automatically generates the correct statements.

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Re:Database schema changes are hard (2017) by recursive on Saturday March 02, 2019 @10:28AM (#19289577)

I don't believe a tool can always generate the correct statements. But I do believe those same statements can be used on all deployments, which I consider automation.

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