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Because it's not a good use of time for one-off modifications. Plus, the GUI is nice for visualizing, so there's a decent chance you're spending a lot of time i
by psychometry 12y ago
Because it's not a good use of time for one-off modifications. Plus, the GUI is nice for visualizing, so there's a decent chance you're spending a lot of time in there anyway.
- needusername 12y agoOne-off modifications, because development, qa and production schemas don't have to be in sync.
- psychometry 12y agoIt's possible to run a query to modify the contents of a database without changing the schema. You may already be familiar with the UPDATE statement, for instance. And not every database in existence is part of a larger stack. I don't care much about automating a task I'll only do once in a throwaway DB that exists only on my computer.