Going from RDM 8.4.6 to RDM 9.0

On first connect you will be prompted to upgrade the database. Only RDM admins are allowed to run DB upgrades, if you are not admin, you will be prompted to contact your admin.

Best practice, it is strongly recommended you have a proper DB backup before you upgrade.

When going from 8.4.6 to 9, I see the database needs updating, but can existing clients still connect to the database once upgraded?

I have about 100 people using it, so can they continue to use the database (once upgraded) and then work through installing v9? or does everyone have to be running v9 to use the upgraded database?

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push!

the same question is in my head at the moment, so how does it work?

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First, make a backup of your database :-)

In general we make all our upgrades compatible with older versions (at least one major release back, but most times more than one). So v8.x is compatible with the v9.x database structure. Always keep in mind, when working on the v8.x, if you try to access and/or use new entry types created in v9.x it will crash since the new types don't exist in v8.x.

Once you are ready to go company wide with v9.x have a look at the "Team Tips & Tricks - Version Management". You can configure your data source to force user to upgrade to the proper realse. Making version management much easier.

Regards,