Limited data migration capabilities in Prisma Migrate
6/10 MediumPrisma Migrate generates structural migrations but requires manual raw SQL for data transformations (e.g., splitting a fullName field into firstName and lastName), breaking the abstraction and losing type safety.
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If you need to transform data as part of a schema change -- say, splitting a fullName field into firstName and lastName -- Prisma will generate the structural migration but you have to write the data transformation yourself in raw SQL within the migration file.
Created: 4/4/2026Updated: 4/4/2026