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Migrating databases

In some scenarios, databases configured for a stand-alone environment are automatically updated as part of starting the server. In other scenarios, they must be upgraded manually.

Databases configured for a stand-alone environment are automatically updated as part of starting the server if the following conditions are met:

Refer to Databases for the database permissions needed to perform schema upgrades.

The Common Event Infrastructure database and Messaging Engine database are automatically migrated by the runtime migration procedure when the profiles are migrated. See Databases.

To upgrade product databases that are not updated automatically, follow the Manually upgrading the product databases procedure.

Runtime migration subprocedures