Database change management tools? [closed]
I may be biased since I started LiquiBase, but I have been using it in production environments for several years and there have been many, many times where releases would have been a nightmare without it. LiquiBase has evolved to be very flexible and powerful and I have not ran into a situation that it was not able to handle (in one way or another) for quite some time.
The last code release contained of a project I am working on using LiquiBase contained a major database refactoring with hundreds of database changes and needed to be applied to a variety of installations that had different starting points for the database. When we did the release, the databases updated without any problems.
Doctrine, a PHP ORM/DBAL offers Migrations, doing what you want.
The Doctrine migration package allows you to easily update your production databases through a nice programmatic interface. The changes are done in a way so that your database is versioned and you can walk backwards and forwards through the database versions.