Yeah, definitely for larger scale systems the process gets quite a bit different, although "large scale" will remain undefined :). It's admittedly been a long

Yeah, definitely for larger scale systems the process gets quite a bit different, although "large scale" will remain undefined :). It's admittedly been a long time since I've used MySQL for anything significant, but I feel like teams in the past have run into issues where DDL operations on their own have succeeded in dev/staging and failed in prod, even though they're running on the same schema. Simply due to there being "weird" data in the rows. I don't know that for sure though. If I'm remembering right, one of those had something to do with the default "latin1_swedish_ci" vs utf8 thing...