There are actually a bunch of external tools that offer declarative schema management flow. Personally I agree that that the overall flow should be external to

There are actually a bunch of external tools that offer declarative schema management flow. Personally I agree that that the overall flow should be external to the DB, but it would be useful if databases could offer more built-in functionality in this area to make these tools easier to write. For sqlite in particular, check out https://david.rothlis.net/declarative-schema-migration-for-sqlite/ https://david.rothlis.net/declarative-schema-migration-for-s... and https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html#transforming-a-table https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html#...