Scripted migrations have their advantages too: - they can be stored in a version control system - your coworkers can run them at their dev environment - they

Scripted migrations have their advantages too: - they can be stored in a version control system - your coworkers can run them at their dev environment - they can be used for automatic deployment - you can test it in a dev environment before running at a production server. With GUI tools you have to remember and repeat exact steps you did before - You can review the script or ask someone to look at it I think GUI tools might be good for browsing and exploring database but not for making changes.