`drizzle-kit check`

This guide assumes familiarity with:

Get started with Drizzle and drizzle-kit - read here
Drizzle schema foundamentals - read here
Database connection basics - read here
Drizzle migrations foundamentals - read here
Drizzle Kit overview and config file
drizzle-kit generate command - read here

drizzle-kit check command lets you check consistency of your generated SQL migrations history.

That’s extremely useful when you have multiple developers working on the project and altering database schema on different branches - read more about migrations for teams.

drizzle-kit check command requires you to specify both dialect and database connection credentials, you can provide them either via drizzle.config.ts config file or via CLI options

With config file

As CLI options

// drizzle.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from "drizzle-kit";

export default defineConfig({
  dialect: "postgresql",
});

npx drizzle-kit check

npx drizzle-kit check --dialect=postgresql

Multiple configuration files in one project

You can have multiple config files in the project, it’s very useful when you have multiple database stages or multiple databases on the same project:

npm

yarn

pnpm

bun

npx drizzle-kit migrate --config=drizzle-dev.config.ts
npx drizzle-kit migrate --config=drizzle-prod.config.ts

yarn drizzle-kit migrate --config=drizzle-dev.config.ts
yarn drizzle-kit migrate --config=drizzle-prod.config.ts

pnpm drizzle-kit migrate --config=drizzle-dev.config.ts
pnpm drizzle-kit migrate --config=drizzle-prod.config.ts

bun drizzle-kit migrate --config=drizzle-dev.config.ts
bun drizzle-kit migrate --config=drizzle-prod.config.ts

📦 <project root>
 ├ 📂 drizzle
 ├ 📂 src
 ├ 📜 .env
 ├ 📜 drizzle-dev.config.ts
 ├ 📜 drizzle-prod.config.ts
 ├ 📜 package.json
 └ 📜 tsconfig.json

Extended list of configurations

We recommend configuring drizzle-kit through drizzle.config.ts file, yet you can provide all configuration options through CLI if necessary, e.g. in CI/CD pipelines, etc.


`dialect`	`required`	Database dialect you are using. Can be `postgresql`,`mysql` or `sqlite`
`out`		migrations folder, default=`./drizzle`
`config`		config file path, default=`drizzle.config.ts`

npm

yarn

pnpm

bun

npx drizzle-kit check --dialect=postgresql
npx drizzle-kit check --dialect=postgresql --out=./migrations-folder

yarn drizzle-kit check --dialect=postgresql
yarn drizzle-kit check --dialect=postgresql --out=./migrations-folder

pnpm drizzle-kit check --dialect=postgresql
pnpm drizzle-kit check --dialect=postgresql --out=./migrations-folder

bun drizzle-kit check --dialect=postgresql
bun drizzle-kit check --dialect=postgresql --out=./migrations-folder