This chapter provides an overview of your Siebel database upgrade. This chapter includes the following topics:

• Upgrade Flow Orientation
• About Supported Siebel Upgrade Paths
• About Siebel Upgrade Environments
• About the Siebel Database Upgrade Process
• About the Siebel Database Configuration Utilities
• About the Siebel Upgrade Wizard and Driver Files
• About Siebel Additive Schema Changes Mode
• About the Siebel Database Upgrade Log Files
• About the Siebel Case Insensitivity Wizard
• Example of a Siebel Development Upgrade Flow
• About the Siebel Repository Merge
• About Inheriting Upgrade Behavior in a Siebel Upgrade
• About the Siebel Postmerge Utilities
• About the Siebel Incorporate Custom Layout Upgrade Option
• About the Database Configuration Utilities
• About Tuning Siebel Production Upgrade Files