Soft upgrade limitationsSoft upgrade allows you to run a newer version of against
an existing database without having to fully upgrade the database. This means
that you can continue to run an older version of against
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If you perform a soft upgrade, you will not be able to perform
certain functions that are not available in older versions of
. Specifically, new
features that affect the structure of a database are not available with a soft
upgrade. For a list of the new features in a release, see the Release Notes for
that release.
To perform a soft upgrade on a database created using an earlier version of
, simply connect to the
database, as shown in the following example: