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title: "FAQ"
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description: "Frequently asked questions about Emigrate."
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---
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## Why no `down` migrations?
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> Always forward never backwards.
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Many other migration tools support `down` migrations, but in all the years we have been
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doing migrations we have never needed to rollback a migration in production,
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in that case we would just write a new migration to fix the problem.
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In our experience the only time `down` migrations are useful is in development,
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and in such case you just revert the migration manually and fix the `up` migration.
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The benefit of this is that you don't have to worry about writing `down` migrations, and you can focus on writing the `up` migrations.
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This way you will only ever have to write `down` migrations when they are really necessary instead of for every migration
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(which makes it the exception rather than the rule, which is closer to the truth).
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