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PlanetScale Blog

Revert a migration without losing data

Bad migrations happen every day and data loss can be devastating. PlanetScale’s new schema revert feature gives you the power to revert changes after a schema migration with no downtime and zero data loss. What is it? Have you ever made a schema change, like changing a column’s data type or dropping a table, that broke your production application causing unplanned downtime, or even worse, a full-scale outage? And once it was live, you immediately wished you could go back in time, without losing

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PlanetScale Blog

Behind the scenes: How schema reverts work

Today, we released a new feature that allows you to instantly revert a recently deployed schema change without losing data that was written to the original schema during the time between deploying and reverting. This is much more than a simple rollback. Imagine you just deployed a schema change to your production database that drops a column on a table. You refresh your production application in the browser only to discover, to your horror, that your application is down. Instead of scrambling to

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