diff --git a/lib/Vroom/Constants.pm b/lib/Vroom/Constants.pm
index 8dd8234..7b213a8 100644
--- a/lib/Vroom/Constants.pm
+++ b/lib/Vroom/Constants.pm
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ use strict;
 use warnings;
 use base 'Exporter';
 
-our @EXPORT = qw/COMPONENTS MOH JS_STRINGS API_ACTIONS/;
+our @EXPORT = qw/DB_VERSION COMPONENTS MOH JS_STRINGS API_ACTIONS/;
+
+# Database version
+use constant DB_VERSION => 1;
 
 # Components used to generate the credits part
 use constant COMPONENTS => {
diff --git a/scripts/db_upgrade.pl b/scripts/db_upgrade.pl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e94290f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/db_upgrade.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+use File::Basename;
+use lib dirname($0) . '/../lib';
+use DBI;
+use Config::Simple;
+use Vroom::Constants;
+use utf8;
+
+
+# Load and parse global config file
+my $cfg = new Config::Simple();
+$cfg->read(dirname($0) . '/../conf/settings.ini');
+my $config = $cfg->vars();
+
+# Open a handle to the database server
+my $dbh = DBI->connect(
+  $config->{'database.dsn'},
+  $config->{'database.user'},
+  $config->{'database.password'},
+  { 
+    mysql_enable_utf8  => 1,
+    PrintError         => 0,
+    RaiseError         => 1,
+    ShowErrorStatement => 1,
+  }
+) || die "Cannot connect to the database: " . DBI->errstr . "\n";
+
+# Check current schema version
+my $sth = eval {
+  $dbh->prepare('SELECT `value`
+                   FROM `config`
+                   WHERE `key`=\'schema_version\'');
+};
+if ($@){
+  die "DB Error: $@\n";
+}
+$sth->execute;
+if ($sth->err){
+  die "DB Error: " . $sth->errstr . " (code: " . $sth->err . ")\n";
+}
+my $cur_ver;
+$sth->bind_columns(\$cur_ver);
+$sth->fetch;
+
+print "Current version is $cur_ver\n";
+
+if ($cur_ver > Vroom::Constants::DB_VERSION){
+  die "Database version is unknown, sorry (current version is $cur_ver when it should be " .
+        Vroom::Constants::DB_VERSION . ")\n";
+}
+
+if ($cur_ver == Vroom::Constants::DB_VERSION){
+  print "Database is up to date, nothing to do\n";
+  exit 0;
+}
+