About upgrading the application server

Use these instructions to upgrade to this release from any previous release.

When you upgrade, you must:

Choose whether to update the existing database or create a new database.
Caution: Unless you choose the update option, your existing database will be deleted.
Provide the database and user parameters that you entered when you created the new database and database user.

Time considerations

Because the upgrade updates every study in the database, upgrading from an earlier release could take some time, so plan your upgrade carefully. For example, Oracle expects that upgrading a database with 150 studies could take 10 - 15 hours or longer.