SQL/MX 3.2 Installation and Upgrade Guide (H06.25+, J06.14+)
Table Of Contents
- HP NonStop SQL/MX Release 3.2 Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Contents
- About this manual
- 1 Preparing to install SQL/MX
- 2 Installing SQL/MX
- Summary of installation tasks
- Preinstallation tasks
- Using the InstallSqlmx script
- Installing SQL/MX
- Verifying the SQL/MX installation
- Post-Installation tasks
- 3 Installing a sample database
- 4 Overview of SQL/MX system upgrade
- 5 Considerations for upgrading the system to SQL/MX Release 3.2
- 6 Upgrading the system to SQL/MX Release 3.2
- 7 Falling back from SQL/MX Release 3.2
- A Removing security administrator grants
- B Identifying tables that contain an IDENTITY Column
- C Identifying tables where the ownership has changed
- D Version management and interoperability
- SQL/MX releases
- Interoperability of SQL/MX releases
- Versions of SQL/MX software components
- E Conversions
- Index

modules and query plans from SQL/MX Release 2.3.x or earlier versions. You must recompile all
the existing embedded modules so they are compatible with the enhanced SQL/MX Release 3.2
executor.
NOTE: Recompiling programs might result in different execution plans, causing a change in
performance.
Upgrading the system from SQL/MX Release 3.0 or Release 3.1 to
SQL/MX Release 3.2
This section describes the sequence and the procedures to upgrade the system from SQL/MX
Release 3.0 or Release 3.1 to SQL/MX Release 3.2.
• “System upgrade sequence” (page 41)
• “Preinstallation” (page 42)
• “Installing SQL/MX Release 3.2” (page 42)
• “Accessing the database” (page 42)
• “Upgrading the metadata after system upgrade” (page 42)
• “Migrating applications after system upgrade” (page 42)
System upgrade sequence
To upgrade from SQL/MX Release 3.0 or 3.1 to SQL/MX Release 3.2, you must follow the sequence
shown in Figure 5 (page 41).
NOTE: The steps to upgrade from SQL/MX Release 3.0 or 3.1 to SQL/MX Release 3.2 are
simpler than the corresponding steps to upgrade the system from SQL/MX Release 2.3.x.
Figure 5 Sequence to upgrade from SQL/MX Release 3.0 or SQL/MX Release 3.1 to SQL/MX
Release 3.2
Start
Stop Applications
Stop TMF
Install R3.2 and cold load
Start TMF
Starting Version
v3100
OR
v3000
OR
v1200
cat1
Sch1
App1
Resulting Version
v1200
OR
v3000
OR
v3100
cat1
Sch1
App1
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