The last time I wrote about how database schema migration tools could do more to help us. The way I see it, any schema migration solution has to cover three tasks: creating, managing, and executing migrations. Creating migrations. The first task is to create a migration script. If your scripts consist of DDL commands in SQL files, you’ll probably write them by hand. A linter like Squawk can help you to ensure the migrations do not cause unnecessary downtime. Things get more interesting if y...
