Installer 10.5 | Complete Installation and Upgrade Information for Software AG Products | Upgrading Software AG Products On Premises | Prepare New Products, Old Products, Database Components, and ZIP Files for Migration | Prepare Database Components for Migration | Overview
 
Overview
The new release might require changes to the database components, such as new tables, columns, keys, or indexes. In this section, you run database migration scripts that update the existing database schemas so they are compatible with the new product release. The scripts might modify the existing database components, or might create parallel database components with the new structure and then insert, select, rename, and drop the tables, columns, keys, and indexes. These changes might increase the size of your database.