The current project that I am working on has multiple databases, but we wanted to streamline the migrations for while keeping them tracked separately with alembic. Previously we had a migration configuration for each database & it just felt unwieldy & unpythonic having multiple alembic.ini & env.py files that all pretty much contained the same […]
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Cleaning Up Your Very First (Bad) Alembic Migration
As with many things, the first time you try something, it often doesn’t go well. And recently we’ve adopted using alembic for database migrations with a python-based project. Conceptually, alembic is a lot like git–each migration is a commit-like object that you can apply (upgrade) or remove (downgrade). And an autogenerated hash is assigned to […]