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Database upgrade changes in SDL Contenta 5.6

Depending on the upgrade or upgrades you perform, you may require assistance from SDL Professional Services for your database upgrade.

SDL Contenta 5.2/5.3 to SDL Contenta 5.6

The upgrade upgrade_56 is mandatory. If you are upgrading from SDL Contenta 5.2 or 5.3, run upgrade_56.exe and upgrade_56.pl. Refer to the SDL Upgrading Contenta Client on Windows topics in this documentation for more information.

Customers upgrading to Contenta 5.6 must upgrade their Oracle database server to the AL32UTF8 character set and set NLS_LANG on the Oracle client to NLS_LANGUAGE_NLS_TERRITORY.AL32UTF8. On Windows, the Oracle client NLS_LANG setting can be found in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ORACLE\KEY_keyname. If you need to change the change the character set for the Oracle database server, please refer to the Oracle documentation for related options and guidelines.

If you are upgrading from a release earlier than 5.2, contact SDL Professional Services at mailto:ProServRequest@sdl.com to discuss upgrade services for your implementation.