Source and Target Databases

In various places within this PeopleBook, as well as any PeopleSoft documentation related to upgrades or database compares, the terms source and target are used. Knowing the meanings of these terms helps you to understand the context of a description or step.

During a PeopleSoft update or upgrade, in most cases, you copy application definitions (such as pages and records) from a source database to a target database. The definitions of these terms are:

Term	Definition
Source database	The source database is the database from which the new changes are coming.
Target database	The target database is the database to which you are moving the new changes.

Note:

Depending on whether you are performing an upgrade or update, and the stage within the process you are, these terms are relative and can refer to different databases.