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 ## Administering Galaxy: upgrading and downgrading the database
 
-To initialize an empty database (or create a new SQLite database), simply start Galaxy. To upgrade or downgrade an existing database, you'll need to use a script.
+To initialize an empty database (or create a new SQLite database) start Galaxy. To upgrade or downgrade an existing database, you'll need to use a script.
 
 To manage database schema migrations, as well as to perform common migration-related operations,
 Galaxy provides two scripts: `db.sh` and `run_alembic.sh`.