Is there any other more simple way of creating a database table?
I recently started creating wordpress plugins and I was fascinated by the easiness of creating a table or adding values to present tables.
Dbdelta() is amazing, is there any other PHP classes just like that, that allows you to create tables that easy?
The sanest way to create, maintain and deploy database schemas I have found are migrations.
Ruckusing is a decent migrations framework for PHP + MySQL. It works well for me on several large and small projects.