# Database migration script documentation

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These are just standard Rails migrations. Take a look at:

> **[Active Record Migrations — Ruby on Rails Guides](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations.html)**
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> Migrations are a feature of Active Record that allows you to evolve your database schema over time. Rather than write schema modifications in pure SQL, migrations allow you to use a Ruby Domain Specific Language (DSL) to describe changes to your...

If you are going to add some, recommend you do this in a plugin, not fork core 🙂

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