Upgrading your Microsoft SQL Server databases manually

After you have upgraded your database server to a supported version, run a number of SQL scripts to upgrade your SQL Server Content Delivery databases (Content Data Store and Experience Manager database, if using). Run these scripts for each database your are upgrading.

Backing up your existing database

Make a back-up of your database before upgrading.

Closing open connections

Regardless of the version from which you are upgrading, you must close all connections to your SQL Server database server before starting the upgrade.

Upgrading your SDL Tridion 2009 SP1 SQL Server database manually

If you are upgrading from version 2009 SP1 of SDL Tridion, access your SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 installation media, navigate to Database\Scripts\MSSQL\, and run the following database scripts located in the relative paths provided, in the order given:

  1. Shared\60\GENERAL_SET_VERSION.sql
  2. Upgrade\54SP1_60\TCD_ITEMMETA.sql
  3. Upgrade\54SP1_60\TCD_METADATA.sql
  4. Upgrade\54SP1_60\TCD_WAICONSTRAINTS.sql
  5. Upgrade\54SP1_60\TCD_TAXONOMIES.sql
  6. Upgrade\54SP1_60\TCD_CUSTOMMETA.sql
  7. Upgrade\54SP1_60\TCD_TRACKING.sql
  8. Shared\60\CD_TRACKING_PROCEDURES.sql
  9. Shared\61\GENERAL_SET_VERSION.sql
  10. Upgrade\60_61\TCD_TRACKING.sql
  11. Upgrade\60_61\TCD_BINARYVARIANTS.sql
  12. Upgrade\60_61\TCD_COMPONENT_PRES_META_DATA.sql
  13. Upgrade\60_61\TCD_PREVIEW.sql
  14. Shared\61\CD_TRACKING_PROCEDURES.sql
  15. Shared\71\GENERAL_SET_VERSION.sql
  16. Upgrade\61_70\TCD_UPDATE_TABLES.sql
  17. Upgrade\61_70\TCD_UNDO.sql

Upgrading your SDL Tridion 2011 SP1 SQL Server database manually

If you are upgrading from version 2011 SP1 of SDL Tridion, access your SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 installation media, navigate to Database\Scripts\MSSQL\, and run the following database scripts located in the relative paths provided, in the order given:

  1. Shared\71\GENERAL_SET_VERSION.sql
  2. Upgrade\61_70\TCD_UPDATE_TABLES.sql
  3. Upgrade\61_70\TCD_UNDO.sql