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Welcome to the neXtep Softwares Wiki!
This wiki is meant to provide useful and up to date information on the neXtep Designer product.
We developped neXtep Designer because we needed to tackle the following problematics in our day-to-day work:
- Database version control
- Database delivery automation (see Delivering database updates article)
- Database continuous build
- Cross-database vendor environments using a single tool
And because database developments deserve free and powerful tools.
In this section you will find a quick overview of what is neXtep Designer and how it could help you with your database developments:
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NeXtep Designer Overview : a quick overview of the database development IDE and what it can do for developers
- NeXtep Designer features : a complete list of the IDE features
- neXtep installer : an overview of the database installer and what it can do for production teams
First of all, you may want to install neXtep Designer on your computer to experiment the product and our tutorials. You will find everything you need here :
- Installing neXtep designer
- Installing neXtep installer : information on how to install and configure the neXtep installer on a remote server
To get started with neXtep Designer we propose you a series of tutorials which demonstrates some of its features:
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NeXtep Designer Demos : See neXtep designer in action through our Flash demos focused on the IDE key concepts and installation
In this section you will find documentation regarding specific features of the development environment or information on recommended usage.
This section describes all features related to version control within the neXtep designer IDE and explains you how to use it :
This section will describe the synchronization features offered by neXtep designer and explains the various option that will help you to synchronize your development databases from the repository and vice versa :
This section will introduce the command-line features of neXtep. Discover how to plug neXtep in your continuous integration process :
Here is the list of available topics :
- Versioning considerations : A discussion on versioning, how you can use it with your day to day developments and a few best-practices.
- Workspaces : An overview of the ''Workspace'' concept and how you could use them
- Database modules : An overview of the ''database module'' concept and the component-oriented database development