Why migrations? Migrations support a code-first approach, which helps us to base our models on what our application needs not on assumptions about what it needs, to avoid complex mappings and complex auto-generated code, and to focus on the application while leaving data persistence as an implementation detail.
What are the risks of migrations? Migrations can help us to create a poor database design with performance and integrity problems and also to overwrite manual changes to the database schema.
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