What is the easiest way to do complex schema updates on a production mysql database?

If you are migrating the data and changing the schema at the same time I would recommend you create a new database (with any changes to the schema you want) then migrate the data to that without modifying the orginal database; which should also be backed up as well, just to be sure.

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