How a central server changes data

This topic explains how the central server affects database queries, specific reports, preferences, and change requests (CRs).

Database queries, specific reports, and preferences

Queries, reports, report formats, and preferences are no longer database specific. You see the same sets of these items no matter which development database you log on to. Existing items in your development databases are automatically transferred to your central CR database. You do not need to explicitly migrate them.

If there are name conflicts between items in different databases, the conflicting items are automatically renamed. For example, if one development database used to contain Report A and Report B, and another contained Report B and Report C, after upgrading to a central server, your central CR database contains Report A, Report B, Report B (2), and Report C.

Change requests

If you are converting an existing database into to your central CR database, the CRs are not affected. However, the CRs in your development databases are not initially visible in a central server.

To make CRs visible, migrate them to the central CR database.

When you migrate CRs from a development database, the system completes the following actions:


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