According to the documentation here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/migrations/ it says: migrate, which is responsible for applying migrations, as well as unapplying and listing thei...

So about a year ago I started a project and like all new developers I didn't really focus too much on the structure, however now I am further along with Django it has started to appear that my proj...

I'd like to disable user access to my app so that I can perform a schema migration. I've looked into a few possibilities and found possible shortcomings: Disable datastore writes - I'd rather jus...

This is an extension to this question: How to move a model between two Django apps (Django 1.7) I need to move a bunch of models from old_app to new_app. The best answer seems to be Ozan's, but wi...

Our firestore DB based model evolves naturally. Now we would like to update all existing documents to the new (implicit) schema. Are there any tools supporting that or what are the best practices....

I quite like Rails' database migration management system. It is not 100% perfect, but it does the trick. Django does not ship with such a database migration system (yet?) but there are a numb...

I'm trying to do a schema update using the app/console doctrine:schema:update --force command, but Doctrine fails on the following part: An exception occurred while executing 'DROP INDEX IDX_E98F2...

I made the stupid mistake of creating too many models in the same Django app, now I want to split it into 3 distinct ones. Problem is: there's already data in production in two customers' sit...

I rewrote a lot of my models, and since I am just running a test server, I do ./manage.py reset myapp to reset the db tables and everything has been working fine. But I tried to do it this time, ...

I've been briefly looking at JPA recently, and I was wondering what the deal is with database schema migrations and staying lined up with the classes you've created. Is there support in JPA for th...