I don't see any other way than using SQL statements such as CREATE TABLE ALTER TABLE and DROP TABLE . You might want to put somewhere a schema version number in order to check what updates your helper script must run in order to update the database schema. This is probably easier than making SQL statements idempotent, as often you also need to do some data conversion too.
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