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Thread: Hummingbird
Hummingbird
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 2006-04-04 14:35:04 

  


  

    Hello,

 


I need 
to verify that I'm doing everything correctly.  We are getting 
ready to upgrade some third-party software that requires a pretty significant 
change to the layout of our database.  This third-party company also 
provides us w/ the BI Query data models.  Because of the change in the 
layout of our databases, I have setup a BI Query 8.5.1 server, seperate from our 
current LIVE one, so that the users can take their existing reports and port 
them to this new server.  This 8.5.1 server is pointing to our test 
databases, which have the layout that the LIVE databases will soon have. ; 
In the process of porting their existing reports to the 8.5.1 server, our report 
writers are discovering errors that they must correct (because of table and/or 
fields that have changed in our databases).  Once these are fixed, they are 
publishing these reports to the repository.


 


Once we go live w/ 
this new software and database structure, I will need to replace the current BI 
Query 8.5.0 software w/ the 8.5.1 version and port the repository from the 
server I setup for our report writers over to the BI Query server.  I think 
I have taken every precaution, but I want to make sure I have all my ducks in a 
row.


 


Once I update the 
Hummingbird software w/ version 8.5.1, I need to stop the server and replace the 
Repository directory w/ the Repository directory from the server I setup for the 
report writers to do their conversions.  Then I re-start the server and 
have the report writers log in.  


 


 


    
  
  • Will they need to 
  retrieve the reports they wrote, and then re-publish?  Or, are they setup 
  and ready to go, at this point?


Also, I have setup 
the "conversion" server, if you will, to point to the test server that has our 
test databases on it.  


 


    
  
  • When I upgrade the 
  BI Query server software on the BI Query server w/ version 8.5.1 and copy the 
  repository over to it, will these reports work if they now point to the LIVE 
  databases?  


In other words, the 
connections will be pointing to different servers, but the layout of the 
databases will be identical to that of the test databases.


 


 


 


Thanks!


 


Shaun 


 


 


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