Category Archives: Database

Detecting duplicate pages in the broker database

It should never happen, but somehow it occasionally does: duplicate records in your broker database. For example: if you have a deployer for staging and another one for live, but you accidentally point them to the same broker database. When this happens, you might end up with 2 (or more) pages in the broker, with the same publication ID and the same URL.

Do you want to know if this is the case for you? Read on.

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Upgrading SDL Tridion Sites 9 Databases

After playing around with installing SDL Tridion Sites 9 from scratch I wanted to know more about the database upgrade steps of this latest release when upgrading from an older version of Tridion.

SDL supports upgrading to SDL Tridion Sites 9 from one of the following versions directly:

  • SDL Web 8.5 (also known as SDL Tridion Sites 8.5)
  • SDL Web 8 with Cumulative Update 1
  • SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 HR1 (Hotfix Rollup 1)

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