These database changes is for that case you havn't done modifications yet.
You don't want to loose data, but you need your db work fine.

alter table prefix_educourses add column start_agregate char(255);
alter table prefix_educourses add column stop_agregate char(255);
alter table prefix_posts add column hidden int(1) DEFAULT 0;
alter table prefix_comments add column hidden int(1) DEFAULT 0;

LATEST CHANGES IN DB
following tells to db that no duplication in relations tables anymore:
ALTER IGNORE TABLE prefix_course_rels_comments ADD PRIMARY KEY (course_guid, link);
ALTER IGNORE TABLE prefix_course_rels_posts ADD PRIMARY KEY (course_guid, link);


LATEST LATEST CHANGES
ALTER IGNORE TABLE prefix_comments ADD COLUMN post_author char(255);

more latest latest:
alter table prefix_educourses modify column start_agregate bigint(20);
alter table prefix_educourses modify column stop_agregate bigint(20);
alter table prefix_educourses modify column signup_deadline bigint(20);
alter table prefix_educourses modify column course_starting_date bigint(20);
alter table prefix_educourses modify column course_ending_date bigint(20);
alter table prefix_assignments modify column deadline bigint(20);

more latest latest latest:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS prefix_log (
    id int(5) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
    created TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NOW(),
    log TEXT
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=UTF8;
alter table prod_statistics add column log int(5);