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Trainers: start here Where everyone who teaches Exponential starts. What the trainer material is, how courses, modules and lesso...
Migrations The start of everything about migrations in Exponential 6.0.15 - schema and content changes written once as...
Course catalogue Every Exponential trainer course in one place, its audience, length, level, prerequisites and modules, with...
Migrations versus migrating a site The word migration means two different jobs in the Exponential documentation - migrations (schema and conte...
The Exponential code of conduct The code of conduct of the Exponential project - the Contributor Covenant 2.1 with Exponential additions fo...
Assessments and practical exercises: course overview The trainer's own assessment material for every Exponential course, how to design fair tests, rubrics and a...

Lesson 9.5: Migrations

Learners ship a database change as a migration - generate a skeleton, write plan(), up() and down() for a table, check the file without a database, read the dry run, simulate on SQLite, run it without a commit and take…
Migrations

The start of everything about migrations in Exponential 6.0.15 - schema and content changes written once as files under version control and applied to every installation of a site in the same order, with a caption…
Migrations: a first PHP migration, step by step

In this tutorial you write two PHP migrations for a site: one creates a table exp_news_note with a first row, the other publishes a folder "News" below the content root and notes it in the table. You check them, look at…
Migrations versus migrating a site

The word migration means two different jobs in the Exponential documentation - migrations (schema and content changes of one site, written as files and applied with exp:migration:migrate) and migrating a site (moving or…
Migration recipes

Twenty-five task pages for migrations in Exponential 6.0.15, each with what you will have at the end, the steps and their output, the complete PHP migration, how to check it, how to take it back and the next step - from…
Migrations: frequently asked questions

Short answers to the questions people ask about migrations in Exponential 6.0.15 - what they are for, how they differ from upgrades and site moves, how runs, captions, rollback, environments, teams, CI, engines…

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