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After moving to newer version of Mifos, can I wait a week or longer to run db contraction?
Yes. Db DB contraction needs to happen anytime before next Mifos upgrade. It is a mandatory step in production and must be planned for.
How do we upgrade DB for QA?
For most of the testing purposes like story sign offs, we can rely on tomcat start up for the db DB upgrade. The shell scripts used in production is used in CI for db DB expansion. Rollback scripts and windows batch files are not part of any automated testing. It is recommended to do one round of manual test with these scripts before a release.
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