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Command-line options

Start the playground with no arguments and it opens a fresh, automatically named temporary project so you can begin straight away:

Terminal window
rdbms-playground

To open an existing project, give its path:

Terminal window
rdbms-playground path/to/project
OptionEffect
--resumeReopen the most recently used project. Errors if there is none; cannot be combined with a project path.
--data-dir <PATH>Use PATH as the data root instead of the OS-standard location for this run.
--mode <simple|advanced>Start in this input mode, overriding the project’s stored mode (precedence: --mode > stored > simple).
--theme <light|dark>Force a theme instead of auto-detecting from the terminal.
--no-undoDisable the undo machinery for this run — no snapshot is taken before each change (see Undo, redo & history).
--demoTurn on demonstration mode — a teaching aid that briefly shows an on-screen badge for keys that otherwise leave no visible mark (Tab, Enter, the arrows, and the like). Useful for screencasts and for demonstrating the playground to a class. Off by default.
--log-file <PATH>Write diagnostic logging to PATH.
-h, --helpPrint the usage banner and exit.
Terminal window
# Reopen wherever you left off, in advanced mode
rdbms-playground --resume --mode advanced
# Keep a course's projects in one folder
rdbms-playground --data-dir ~/db-course

Where projects are stored, and what a project contains, is covered in Projects and storage.