How do you guy migrate from Dev to PROD?

We use a recent backup of our db and restore to a stage (dev) environment for testing new stuff.  We do a nightly back up of prod and retain from two weeks so there are plenty to chose from but it's most often the newest one.  Each time I need to test or create something very big in whd, I ask support for a provisional license so I can actually use a mirror of our 130 tech prod environment.  The license expires after 30 days but it's usually plenty of time to work on the project.

Once everything is ready to go I don't do anything fancy to get the changes into prod, I just have stage open on one screen and prod open on the other and then mirror them.  I suppose you could write a sql script to only add the new parts from stage to prod but I've just never found the need to explore that.

So there's really no way to do a migration...got it thanks.