How to efficiently manage frequent schema changes using sqlalchemy?

Alembic is a new database migrations tool, written by the author of SQLAlchemy. I’ve found it much easier to use than sqlalchemy-migrate. It also works seamlessly with Flask-SQLAlchemy.

Auto generate the schema migration script from your SQLAlchemy models:

alembic revision --autogenerate -m "description of changes"

Then apply the new schema changes to your database:

alembic upgrade head

More info here: http://readthedocs.org/docs/alembic/

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