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Date Published
Author
Mike Coutermarsh
Word count
331
Language
English
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Summary

We'd like to share a little detail we just shipped to the Deploy Request UI. We now show developers if their schema change could result in the loss of any data due to a dropped column or table, aiming to make deploy requests safer and less stressful. This feature was inspired by developer experiences with renaming columns through PlanetScale, where a rename is an unsafe operation during zero downtime deployments. To safely complete a rename without risk, developers must follow a multi-step process involving multiple deployments of their application, which can be time-consuming but ensures the safest outcome.