Applying Additive Upgrade Changes to the Target Database

Upgrades: All upgrades.

Environments: Production test, production.

For development database upgrades, all schema changes are processed as nonadditive so this step does not apply.

This topic is part of an upgrade process. See Performing a Siebel Database Upgrade.

Before you can perform the in-place target database upgrade, you must first apply all of the additive schema changes that you previously applied to the production staging database. See Applying the Additive Schema Changes to the Production Staging Database for further information.

When applying additive changes, you can either:

  • Apply one, or a few of the additive changes to the target database during one or more sessions.

  • Apply all of the additive changes as one job, provided that you applied all of the additive changes to the staging database.

Both methods of applying additive changes are described in this topic.

Note: You must rebuild tables in the target database that contain LONG VARCHAR columns before you apply additive schema changes to the target database. For information, see Rebuilding Target Tables Containing LONG VARCHAR Columns.