Set Up the Target Database

1. Back up and remove the upgraded production test database.

2. In the production test environment, install a recent backup of your production database.

   This database has not been upgraded and is called the target database. You use it to perform test upgrades as part of tuning upgrade performance.

3. Define an ODBC connection to the target database.

4. Verify that the target database is configured for optimum upgrade performance. Review the relevant topics in the following:

   • Basic Database Preparations for a Siebel Upgrade

   • The chapter in Siebel Database Upgrade Guide that describes the basic database preparations for a Siebel upgrade

5. (Optional) Run statistics on the target database if the catalog statistics require updating.

6. Perform the relevant tasks in the chapter in Siebel Database Upgrade Guide that describes how to prepare Siebel Business Applications data for upgrade.