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Migration Overview
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Migrations are a convenient way to alter your database schema over time in a
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consistent and easy way. They use a Ruby DSL so that you don't have to write
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SQL by hand, allowing your schema and changes to be database independent.
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Migrations are a convenient way to
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[alter your database schema over time](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_migration)
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in a consistent and easy way. They use a Ruby DSL so that you don't have to
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write SQL by hand, allowing your schema and changes to be database independent.
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You can think of each migration as being a new 'version' of the database. A
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schema starts off with nothing in it, and each migration modifies it to add or

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