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It may be tempting at the start of a new project to create the first database tables manually, or write SQL scripts that you run manually, especially when you first have to spend a signifacant amount of time on sifting through all the migration libraries and then some more to get it working properly.
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A big part of a web development framework's value is that it pre-selects a set of common libraries. If you use the framework as-is you will have a reasonable setup to build on without having to put any thought into it.
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Picking a database for your web application can be surprisingly time consuming. There are a variety of databases of various types available and Quicklisp has an interface library for many of them.
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