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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions src/pages/posts/onboarding.md
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## Starting the local database instance
For this project, we are using a PostgreSQL database running as a Docker image. You don't really have to know how to use Docker to start the database.

To start the database, navigate to the root directory of the project in a terminal and run the following command:
To start the database, first open Docker Desktop, then navigate to the root directory of the project in a terminal and run the following command:

```bash
docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up -d
docker compose -f compose.dev.yml up -d
```

This command will start the PostgreSQL database in the background. I also included a program called pgAdmin that you can use to interact with the database.
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