[bob1029]

Deploying SQL changes is actually trivial if you are using SQLite.

I agree in a hosted+shared SQL scenario you have to be a little bit more careful with all of this. Arguably, you should have a separate schema management phase in these cases.

But if you are just SQLite embedded in the service, you can use the user_version pragma to track schema version and perform deterministic migrations (assuming a user didn't manually jack with the file in-between).