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migration

A recorded, ordered change to a database's structure, so every environment can be brought to the same shape.

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Where it comes up

Refactoring Legacy Codebases

Jan 8, 2026first said at 1:2429 mentions

“migrations. So in this blog post I talk a little bit about how we were questioning some of the decisions whether we needed these abstractions. Do you need the CMS? Do you need these layers between the code? This was one type of migration. A…”

Refactoring Legacy Codebases

May 21, 2026first said at 3:0813 mentions

“Um this is a an open-source repo called Pet Clinic. Maybe you've seen it before. It's it's a legacy Spring code base. And we're going to use the front end to rewrite and automate user acceptance tests. We've also uh I've kicked off a fully…”

Cursor CLI

Apr 15, 2026first said at 8:309 mentions

“code base, and specifically the status of the open feature, uh, migration." So, I'm going to spin off that agent, which is going to just, again, it's in ask mode, it's going to do some research, uh, for me, and, um, uh, we'll see what it co…”

Cursor 2.0 Launch

Nov 5, 2025first said at 12:398 mentions

“Okay. And then run a database migration. So the database migration, we'll have our schema and we can even ask the agent if we want explain our schema, explain the relationships in our database. The schema is just the mapping for how uh how…”

Cursor for Financial Services

Feb 3, 2026first said at 2:503 mentions

“across very large code bases. We were seeing a lot of success with those um use cases for cobalt for example cobalt migrations being able to use semantic search to understand the current state which wasn't necessarily fully understood and t…”

Cursor for Quality Assurance

Feb 12, 2026first said at 44:283 mentions

“to categorize some of the top most critical um most critical items and then we're going to create a set guardrail tests for those items and then create a migration plan to use those guardrail tests and then uh implement the code in such a w…”

Cloud Agents

Mar 19, 2026first said at 25:091 mention

“scratch using grind mode. Um but yeah, I've seen people use this for like really, really uh tough migrations. Um I know someone who tried to migrate from Poetry to UV doing this and they were able to do it. Um same from like SQL upgrades fr…”

Cursor 101

May 7, 2026first said at 28:361 mention

“if your chat fills up and you will won't even need to create a new chat. So, if you have super long-running chats, let's say you're running a cloud agent and this is going to be a migration from like Python to JavaScript. Um it might fill u…”

Cursor for Professional Services

Nov 18, 2025first said at 3:441 mention

“security issues especially if that MVP is bound to make it to production to some extent and we're trying to ship this code to the customer. sometimes it can cause issues and so we're taking a different approach where essentially we are help…”

Training Composer 2

May 14, 2026first said at 6:511 mention

“But we also increasingly include tasks that look more like parts of the software development process, such as including documentations, or doing migrations, or kind of managing different project structures. The tasks vary greatly in difficu…”