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Programming Ecto
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Programming Ecto

by Darin Wilson, Eric Meadows-Jonsson
April 2019
Beginner to intermediate
244 pages
6h 34m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Introducing Migrations

Migrations solve an age-old problem: keeping the structure of the database in sync between production systems, staging systems, and the local systems running on each developer’s computer. This used to be a manual process and it was prone to error. A hot fix made on a production system might not propagate back to the developer’s systems, leading to errors that were hard to track down. Migrations help automate this process and provide a consistent framework for making changes across all the systems in your organization.

When adding a new feature that requires changes to the database, you write a migration: a single Elixir module that can execute the changes you want to make. You store that migration in source control along ...

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