Updating the Oracle database

When you update your Spotfire Server to a newer version, any user action database logging you have configured earlier will most likely continue to work, but to add new views you must perform additional steps.

Prerequisites

You must have credentials to the action log database.

Procedure

  1. In the new installation kit directory, browse to \scripts\oracle_install\actionlog.
  2. Using a text editor, open the script file create_actionlog_db.bat (on Windows) or .sh (on Linux).
  3. In the file, remove the section that creates the tablespace and user. Then, enter the information for CONNECTIDENTIFIER, ACTIONDB_USER, and ACTIONDB_PASSWORD, and run the edited script the same way as when you enabled the database logging.
    Tip: If you are familiar with SQL utilities, you could instead copy the SQL commands found in create_actionlog_db.sql, log in to the schema spotfire_actionlog and run the SQL directly.
    The SQL checks to see whether the table exists, and, if it does, creates only the views.

What to do next

The installation kit also includes a library import file, which contains information links for logging categories, as well as a sample Spotfire analysis file, which you can use to gain insight about your system. See Importing a library to Spotfire Analyst for analyzing action logs for more information.