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Installation Install RDBMS Playground from a prebuilt binary or a package manager, and run it for the first time.
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RDBMS Playground is a single self-contained program. There is nothing to configure and no separate database to install — everything it needs is built in.

Prebuilt binaries

Download the binary for your platform, make it executable if needed, and put it somewhere on your PATH.

:::note Download links are published with each release. They are added here when the first public version ships. :::

Package managers

Once published, the playground will be installable through common package managers:

# macOS / Linux (Homebrew)
brew install rdbms-playground

# Windows (Scoop)
scoop install rdbms-playground

:::note Package-manager availability lands with the first public release; the exact names are confirmed here at that time. :::

Run it

Start the playground with no arguments and it opens a fresh, automatically named temporary project so you can start experimenting immediately:

rdbms-playground

To open an existing project, pass its path:

rdbms-playground path/to/project

Useful options (run rdbms-playground --help for the full list):

Option What it does
--resume Reopen the most recently used project.
--data-dir <PATH> Use a different location for stored projects.
--theme <light|dark> Force a theme instead of auto-detecting.
--mode <simple|advanced> Start in a specific input mode.

Next: create your first project.