Demo Movies
These demo movies are designed to give you a general overview of how the DB Ghost Process works.
We highly recommend downloading and viewing them before beginning your evaluation.
How to Activate the software
Internet Activation Video
... or ...
Manual Activation Video
A first Glance at Using Source Scripts
An introduction to database source scripts and why we think they are crucial to professional database development (about 7 minutes long).
Watch in Windows Media Player
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Below is a set of demos that show an older version of DBGhost but are still functionally relevant...
- Step 1 - Getting Your Database into Source Control
This shows how to script out your current databases and place them under source control. It also demonstrates how
easy it is to make changes to the database using the scripts.
Please note that, although there is a direct integration with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe the general process
works for any source control system. For other source control systems the scripts must be added using the source control system's own GUI or command line.
- Step 2 - Building Your Database from the Source Controlled Scripts
This clarifies how DB Ghost can maintain the integrity of the database by performing a new build of the schema which
highlights any dependency or syntax errors.
- Step 3 - Compare and Upgrade a Target Database from the Newly Built Database
This is the final step in the process that performs the actual upgrade of the target database (test, UAT, production etc.)
using the clean database which was built from the scripts under source control.