You probably heard #flyway before, which is database migration tool, another one is #liquibase, they do the migration with the provided scripts.

This post is about how #IntelliJ can generate migration scripts from your JPA code. Let's say you've developed everything, updated your @Entity classes, and tested that everything is working. Now, you can generate the migration script directly from IntelliJ.

Check the gif here to see how to do it on UI https://blog.jetbrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/7-generate-2nd-flyway-migration.gif

Read further here https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2024/11/how-to-use-flyway-for-database-migrations-in-spring-boot-applications/#8.-modify-jpa-entities-and-generate-new-migrations