diff --git a/alter-scripts/alter-1.39.py b/alter-scripts/alter-1.39.py
index 4d087944..510d91f7 100644
--- a/alter-scripts/alter-1.39.py
+++ b/alter-scripts/alter-1.39.py
@@ -5,20 +5,19 @@
 from django.core.files.storage import FileSystemStorage
 import django
 import sys
+from connection import execute
 
 os.chdir('..')
 sys.path.append(os.getcwd())
 os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'mulearnbackend.settings')
 django.setup()
 
-from db.user import User
-from db.settings import SystemSetting
-
 
 def save_image(user_id, url):
     try:
         response = requests.get(url)
         response.raise_for_status()
+
         extension = splitext(url)[-1].split("?")[0]
         pic = BytesIO(response.content)
         fs = FileSystemStorage()
@@ -29,10 +28,8 @@ def save_image(user_id, url):
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    users = User.objects.filter(profile_pic__isnull=False)
-    for user in users:
-        save_image(user.id, user.profile_pic)
+    data = execute("SELECT id, profile_pic FROM user WHERE profile_pic IS NOT NULL;")
+    for user_id, profile_pic in data:
+        save_image(user_id, profile_pic)
 
-    settings = SystemSetting.objects.filter(key="db.version").first()
-    settings.value = "1.39"
-    settings.save()
+    execute("UPDATE system_setting SET value = '1.39', updated_at = now() WHERE `key` = 'db.version';")
diff --git a/alter-scripts/connection.py b/alter-scripts/connection.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f90c51b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alter-scripts/connection.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import pymysql
+from decouple import config
+
+db_config = {
+    'host': config('DATABASE_HOST'),
+    'user': config('DATABASE_USER'),
+    'password': config('DATABASE_PASSWORD'),
+    'db': config('DATABASE_NAME'),
+}
+
+
+def execute(query):
+    with pymysql.connect(**db_config) as connection:
+        with connection.cursor() as cursor:
+            cursor.execute(query)
+            return cursor.fetchall()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d769c13b..f0f7a1a2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -17,4 +17,5 @@ requests==2.31.0
 service-identity==23.1.0
 tzdata==2023.3
 zope.interface==6.1
-qrcode==7.4.2
\ No newline at end of file
+qrcode==7.4.2
+pymysql==1.0.2