Sitecore XP 8.x
Version: 10.5
If you are upgrading from Sitecore XP 8.x, Sitecore xConnect and a number of new databases are installed with the new version of Sitecore XP:
- New xDB databases
- processing tasks
- exm_master
- New xConnect databases
- processing pools
- marketing automation
- collection shards
- collection shard map manager
- reference data
- processing engine storage
- processing engine tasks
- messaging
To see which connection strings are required for the new xDB and xConnect databases, review the connection strings on the new Sitecore XP installation.
Reporting database for Sitecore 8.x
According to the Requirements section, you should have chosen what to do with xDB data that you have in MongoDB, as MongoDB is no longer supported since Sitecore XP 9.0.0.
If you opted to not migrate your data, you should execute the upgrade scripts to upgrade the Reporting database as described in the next section. The new xConnect databases will not contain your data.
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