In short
Version-controlled, incremental scripts that evolve your database schema over time — letting a team change table/collection structures safely and reproducibly.
How to learn this
- 1Write a migration that adds a field to an existing model without losing data.
- 2Learn how your ORM's migration tooling tracks which migrations have already run.
- 3Practice applying a migration to a fresh database as part of your project setup.
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