diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 5cade8a..e42a377 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-FROM node:21-bookworm-slim
+FROM node:22-bookworm-slim
 WORKDIR "/app"
 COPY package*.json /app
 RUN npm install --production
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dc4185b..74a39e2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This server is available via docker hub at krgamestudios/chat-server.
 
 # Setup
 
-There are multiple ways to run this app - it can run on it's own via `npm start` (for production) or `npm run dev` (for development). it can also run inside docker using `docker-compose up --build` - run `node configure-script.js` to generate docker-compose.yml and startup.sql.
+There are multiple ways to run this app - it can run on it's own via `npm start` (for production) or `npm run dev` (for development). it can also run inside docker using `docker compose up --build` - run `node configure-script.js` to generate docker-compose.yml and startup.sql.
 
 To generate an authorization token, use [auth-server](https://github.com/krgamestudios/auth-server). A public-facing development auth-server is available here (tokens are valid for 10 minutes):
 
diff --git a/tools/debug-startup.sql b/tools/debug-startup.sql
index 933b986..3adb665 100644
--- a/tools/debug-startup.sql
+++ b/tools/debug-startup.sql
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #use this while debugging
-CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS chat;
-CREATE USER IF NOT EXISTS 'chat'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'blastoise';
+CREATE DATABASE chat;
+CREATE USER 'chat'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'blastoise';
 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON chat.* TO 'chat'@'%';