Selecting a Data Source

When you start a Siebel application from the Siebel Developer Web Client, you specify the data source to which you want to connect.

The following databases are potentially available to administrators and users:

• Local. A database that resides on your local computer. You can synchronize this database with the corporate database. This database is typically stored on a laptop computer, and mobile users who are not connected to a server when working use this database.

• Server. Your enterprise server database.

• Sample. A database of sample data, stored on your workstation. Using this database, you can experiment with a Siebel application without risk of damaging actual organizational data.

Always perform system administration tasks against the server database. Although you can perform these tasks against your local database and synchronize, doing so can cause errors, including data conflicts. In addition, performance problems can result from a large local database, and from routing large numbers of transactions.