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Baselining an Existing Database in Prisma Without Running migrate reset
Learn why Prisma reports drift on an existing database, why migrate reset is the wrong fix, and how to baseline with db pull, migrate diff and migrate resolve.
4 min readPrisma's Shadow Database and Naming Mismatch: An Operating Manual
Why prisma migrate dev wants to reset your database, how to set up a safe shadow database, and how to map Prisma's PascalCase to PostgreSQL snake_case.
5 min read
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