# Plugin Database Migrations

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [March 27, 2023, 8:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-database-migrations/259521 "2023-03-27T08:50:37Z")\
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You don’t run migrations from within a plugin.

In a Dev environment you perform them from the console.

Why? Because when you deploy a plugin the migrations are taken care of by the host app.

It’s out of scope of what a plugin should do.

(FYI that’s not to say you don’t include migrations within the plugin if you are e.g. modifying the database but the plugin is not going to _perform_ the migrations)

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