Process of Planning a Siebel Database Upgrade

Upgrades: All upgrades.

Environments: All environments

This process is part of an upgrade roadmap. See Roadmap for Upgrading from Siebel 7.8.2, 8.0.x or 8.1.1.x and Roadmap for Upgrading from Siebel 7.x, 8.0.x or 8.1.1.x Without a Development Environment.

To plan the upgrade, read the following:

1. How the Siebel Database Upgrade Works

2. In Siebel Database Upgrade Guide, review how Siebel database upgrade works by reading topics about the following:

   • Siebel case insensitivity wizard

   • Siebel repository merge

   • Inheriting upgrade behavior in a Siebel upgrade

   • Siebel postmerge utilities

   • Database Configuration Utilities

3. Planning a Siebel Database Upgrade

4. In Siebel Database Upgrade Guide, review Siebel database and UI upgrade planning by reading topics about the following:

   • Siebel upgrade planning resources

   • Guidelines and best practices for doing your Siebel database upgrade

   • Siebel user interface changes

   • Siebel Party Model

   • Migrating Siebel HTML attachments to base tables

   • Upgrade planning for multilingual Siebel deployments

   • Upgrade planning for Siebel AES encryption

   • Upgrade planning for Siebel access control

5. The chapter in Siebel Database Upgrade Guide that describes application planning for a Siebel upgrade.

6. The chapter in Siebel Database Upgrade Guide that contains reference information on Siebel Marketing upgrades.

7. The chapter in Siebel Database Upgrade Guide that lists tables modified or seeded during a Siebel upgrade.