GettingStarted
#Getting Started
##Introduction Welcome to RoundhousE (RH)! RH is one of the most intelligent database change management (also known as migration framework) OSS tools out there. Over the next couple of chapters you are going to learn how to effectively use RoundhousE to solve the complex business problem of managing change for your database. You will see that RH makes it really easy and as you learn the tool, you will wonder how you ever used anything else.
##Prerequisites
###Database Installed
Whatever database you are going to use, be it SQL Server or be it MySQL, needs to be installed so you can do database change management.
###.NET Framework 3.5
You will also need to have the .NET framework installed. Currently RH uses 3.5.
###Other Prerequisites
The install agent (usually a person running rh) needs to be able to create databases on the database (which usually means SA).
##Run the Sample for Familiarization
If you’ve downloaded the application, the best way to see the power of RoundhousE is to actually run the sample. It will also help you familiarize yourself with how RoundhousE works.
###Sample Prerequisites
The sample is run against SQL Server 2005/2008 (and it works with express as well), so you would need that installed. You can also attempt to run the sample against other database types.
###Running It
- Go to code_drop/sample (if you have the source) or to sample if you downloaded the release. Go into the deployment folder.
