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What is the process for upgrading Scarab?

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What is the process for upgrading Scarab?

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The Scarab developers provide MySQL database upgrade scripts for each new version of Scarab. We also take contributions for other databases. These scripts reside in the scarab/src/sql/upgrade directory. Some of these scripts are .sql files and some are unix shell .sh files. If you are using another database or operating system, we welcome your contributions to port these files. To execute the .sql scripts you should type something along the lines of: mysql DATABASE_NAME < mysql-upgrade-1.0b8-1.0b9-1.sql To execute the .sh scripts you should type something along the lines of: ./mysql-upgrade-1.0b8-1.0b9-3.sh --password Note that you will need to execute ALL of the scripts in order of upgrade version number and script order. For example, if you are upgrading from 1.0b8 to 1.0b9, then you should execute mysql*b8*b9-1.sql, mysql*b8*b9-2.sql, etc. Also note that the --password argument to the shell script is optional and not required if you do not need to specify a password. If you have dep

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