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authorYves Senn <yves.senn@gmail.com>2014-03-26 09:06:31 +0100
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link to "Schema migration" Wikipedia page. Closes #14479. [ci skip]
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Migration Overview
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-Migrations are a convenient way to alter your database schema over time in a
-consistent and easy way. They use a Ruby DSL so that you don't have to write
-SQL by hand, allowing your schema and changes to be database independent.
+Migrations are a convenient way to
+[alter your database schema over time](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_migration)
+in a consistent and easy way. They use a Ruby DSL so that you don't have to
+write SQL by hand, allowing your schema and changes to be database independent.
You can think of each migration as being a new 'version' of the database. A
schema starts off with nothing in it, and each migration modifies it to add or