This chapter provides information on planning your Siebel database upgrade. It includes the following topics:

• About Siebel Upgrade Planning Resources
• Guidelines for Planning Your Siebel Database Upgrade
• About Upgrading Your RDBMS in the Siebel Environment
• About Database Sort Order in the Siebel Environment
• 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
• About the Siebel Repository Merge
• About Single Step Repository Upgrade
• About Inheriting Upgrade Behavior in a Siebel Upgrade
• About the Siebel Postmerge Utilities
• About Tuning Siebel Production Upgrade Files

NOTE:  For a detailed overview of the upgrade process and related tasks, see Overview of Performing a Siebel Database Upgrade.