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Designing for Zero-Downtime Schema Migrations
Updated May 4, 2026
Short answer
Altering large tables without locking reads or writes.
Deep explanation
Uses 'In-Place' algorithms or external tools like gh-ost or pt-online-schema-change to copy data to a new table structure in the background.
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