Astera Data Stack
Version 7
Version 7
  • Welcome to Astera Data Stack Documentation
  • Release Notes
    • Upgrading Astera 6 to Version 7
    • Release Notes for Astera 7.1
    • What is New in Astera 7.4
    • What’s New in Astera 7.4.1.221
    • What’s New in Astera 7.6
    • Upgrading to Astera 7.6
  • Setting Up
    • System Requirements
    • Installing Astera Data Integrator
    • Setting up Astera Integration Server 7
    • UI Walkthrough - Astera Data Integrator
  • Dataflows
    • Introducing Dataflows
    • Sources
      • Setting Up Sources
      • Raw Text Filters in File Sources
      • COBOL File Source
      • Database Table Source
      • Data Model Source
      • Delimited File Source
      • Email Source
      • Excel Workbook Source
      • File System Items Source
      • Fixed Length File Source
      • PDF Form Source
      • Report Source
      • SQL Query Source
      • XML/JSON File Source
    • Transformations
      • Aggregate Transformation
      • Apply To All Transformation
      • Constant Value Transformation
      • Data Cleanse Transformation
      • Data Quality Rules Transformation
      • Denormalize Transformation
      • Distinct Transformation
      • Expression Transformation
      • Filter Transformation
      • Function Transformations
      • Join Transformation
      • Merge Transformation
      • Normalize Transformation
      • Passthru Transformation
      • Rest Client
      • Route Transformation
      • Sequence Generator Transformation
      • Sort Transformation
      • Sources as Transformations
      • Subflow Transformation
      • Tree Join Transformation
      • Union Transformation
      • Web Service Transformation
    • Destinations
      • Setting Up Destinations
      • Database Table Destination
      • Delimited File Destination
      • Excel Workbook Destination
      • Fixed Length File Destination
      • SQL Statement Destination
      • XML/JSON File Destination
    • Data Logging and Profiling
      • Creating Data Profile
      • Creating Field Profile
      • Data Quality Mode
      • Record Level Log
      • Using Data Quality Rules in Astera
    • Database Write Strategies
      • Database Write Strategies
    • Text Processors
      • Fixed Length Parser
      • Fixed Length Serializer
  • Workflows
    • Adding Workflow Tasks
    • Creating Workflows
    • Using Workflow Designer
    • Customizing Workflows With Parameters
    • Workflows with a Dynamic Destination Path
    • Resuming and Rerunning Workflows in Astera
  • Subflows
    • Using Subflows
  • Functions
    • Functions Glossary
    • Introducing Function Transformations
    • Custom Functions
    • Logical
      • Coalesce (Any value1, Any value2)
      • IsNotNull (AnyValue)
      • IsRealNumber (AnyValue)
      • IsValidSqlDate (Date)
      • IsDate (AnyValue)
      • If (Boolean)
      • If (DateTime)
      • If (Double)
      • Exists
      • If (Int64)
      • If (String)
      • IsDate (str, strformat)
      • IsInteger (AnyValue)
      • IsNullOrWhitespace (StringValue)
      • IsNullorEmpty (StringValue)
      • IsNull (AnyValue)
      • IsNumeric (AnyValue)
    • Conversion
      • GetDateComponents (DateWithOffset)
      • ParseDate (Formats, Str)
      • GetDateComponents (Date)
      • HexToInteger (Any Value)
      • ToInteger (Any value)
      • ToDecimal (Any value)
      • ToReal (Any value)
      • ToDate (String dateStr)
      • TryParseDate (String, UnknownDate)
      • ToString (Any value)
      • ToString (DateValue)
      • ToString (Any data, String format)
    • Math
      • Abs (Double)
      • Abs (Decimal)
      • Ceiling (Real)
      • Ceiling(Decimal)
      • Floor (Decimal)
      • Floor (Real)
      • Max (Decimal)
      • Max (Date)
      • Min (Decimal)
      • Min (Date)
      • Max (Real)
      • Max (Integer)
      • Min (Real)
      • Pow (BaseExponent)
      • Min (Integer)
      • RandomReal (Int)
      • Round (Real)
      • Round (Real Integer)
      • Round (Decimal Integer)
      • Round (Decimal)
    • Financial
      • DDB
      • FV
      • IPmt
      • IPmt (FV)
      • Pmt
      • Pmt (FV)
      • PPmt
      • PPmt (FV)
      • PV (FV)
      • Rate
      • Rate (FV)
      • SLN
      • SYD
    • String
      • Center (String)
      • Chr (IntAscii)
      • Asc (String)
      • AddCDATAEnvelope
      • Concatenate (String)
      • ContainsAnyChar (String)
      • Contains (String)
      • Compact (String)
      • Find (Int64)
      • EndsWith (String)
      • FindIntStart (Int32)
      • Extract (String)
      • GetFindCount (Int64)
      • FindLast (Int64)
      • GetDigits (String)
      • GetLineFeed
      • Insert (String)
      • IsAlpha
      • GetToken
      • IndexOf
      • IsBlank
      • IsLower
      • IsUpper
      • IsSubstringOf
      • Length (String)
      • LeftOf (String)
      • Left (String)
      • IsValidName
      • Mid (String)
      • PadLeft
      • Mid (String Chars)
      • LSplit (String)
      • PadRight
      • ReplaceAllSpecialCharsWithSpace
      • RemoveChars (String str, StringCharsToRemove)
      • ReplaceLast
      • RightAlign
      • Reverse
      • Right (String)
      • RSplit (String)
      • SplitStringMultipleRecords
      • SplitStringMultipleRecords (2 Separators)
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      • Trim
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      • StripHtml
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      • TrimEnd
      • PascalCaseWithSpace (String str)
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      • ToLower(String str)
      • ToProper(String str)
      • ToUpper (String str)
      • Substring (String str, Integer startAt)
      • StartsWith (String str, String value)
      • RemoveAt (String str, Integer startAt, Integer noofChars)
      • Proper (String str)
      • Repeat (String str, Integer count)
      • ReplaceAll (String str, String lookFor, String replaceWith)
      • ReplaceFirst (String str, String lookFor, String replaceWith)
      • RightOf (String str, String lookFor)
      • RemoveChars (String str, String charsToRemove)
      • SplitString (String str, String separator1, String separator2)
    • Date Time
      • AddMinutes (DateTime)
      • AddDays (DateTimeOffset)
      • AddDays (DateTime)
      • AddHours (DateTime)
      • AddSeconds (DateTime)
      • AddMonths (DateTime)
      • AddMonths (DateTimeOffset)
      • AddMinutes (DateTimeOffset)
      • AddSeconds (DateTimeOffset)
      • AddYears (DateTimeOffset)
      • AddYears (DateTime)
      • Age (DateTime)
      • Age (DateTimeOffset)
      • CharToSeconds (Str)
      • DateDifferenceDays (DateTimeOffset)
      • DateDifferenceDays (DateTime)
      • DateDifferenceHours (DateTimeOffset)
      • DateDifferenceHours (DateTime)
      • DateDifferenceMonths (DateTimeOffset)
      • DateDifferenceMonths (DateTime)
      • DatePart (DateTimeOffset)
      • DatePart (DateTime)
      • DateDifferenceYears (DateTimeOffset)
      • DateDifferenceYears (DateTime)
      • Month (DateTime)
      • Month (DateTimeOffset)
      • Now
      • Quarter (DateTime)
      • Quarter (DateTimeOffset)
      • Second (DateTime)
      • Second (DateTimeOffset)
      • SecondsToChar (String)
      • TimeToInteger (DateTime)
      • TimeToInteger (DateTimeOffset)
      • ToDate Date (DateTime)
      • ToDate DateTime (DateTime)
      • ToDateString (DateTime)
      • ToDateTimeOffset-Date (DateTimeOffset)
      • ToDate DateTime (DateTimeOffset)
      • ToDateString (DateTimeOffset)
      • Today
      • ToLocal (DateTime)
      • ToJulianDate (DateTime)
      • ToJulianDayNumber (DateTime)
      • ToTicks (Date dateTime)
      • ToTicks (DateTimeWithOffset dateTime)
      • ToUnixEpoc (Date dateTime)
      • ToUtc (Date dateTime)
      • UnixTimeStampToDateTime (Real unixTimeStamp)
      • UtcNow ()
      • Week (Date dateTime)
      • Week (DateTimeWithOffset dateTime)
      • Year (Date dateTime)
      • Year (DateTimeWithOffset dateTime)
      • DateToJulian (Date dateTime, Integer length)
      • DateTimeOffsetUtcNow ()
      • DateTimeOffsetNow ()
      • Day (DateTimeWithOffset dateTime)
      • Day (Date dateTime)
      • DayOfWeekStr (DateTimeWithOffset dateTime)
      • DayOfWeek (DateTimeWithOffset dateTime)
      • DayOfWeek (Date dateTime)
      • DateToJulian (DateTimeWithOffset dateTime, Integer length)
      • DayOfWeekStr (Date dateTime)
      • FromJulianDate (Real julianDate)
      • DayOfYear (Date dateTime)
      • DaysInMonth(Integer year, Integer month)
      • DayOfYear (DateTimeWithOffset dateTime)
      • FromUnixEpoc
      • FromJulianDayNumber (Integer julianDayNumber)
      • FromTicksUtc(Integer ticks)
      • FromTicksLocal(Integer ticks)
      • Hour (Date dateTime)
      • Hour (DateTimeWithOffset dateTime)
      • Minute (Date dateTime)
      • JulianToDate (String julianDate)
      • Minute (DateTimeWithOffset dateTime)
      • DateToIntegerYYYYMMDD (DateTimeWithOffset dateTime)
      • DateToIntegerYYYYMMDD (Date dateTime)
    • Files
      • AppendTextToFile (String filePath, String text)
      • CopyFile (String sourceFilePath, String destFilePath, Boolean overWrite)
      • CreateDateTime (String filePath)
      • DeleteFile (String filePath)
      • DirectoryExists (String filePath)
      • FileExists (String filePath)
      • FileLength (String filePath)
      • FileLineCount (String filePath)
      • GetDirectory (String filePath)
      • GetEDIFileMetaData (String filePath)
      • GetExcelWorksheets (String excelFilePath)
      • GetFileExtension (String filePath)
      • GetFileInfo (String filePath)
      • GetFileName (String filePath)
      • GetFileNameWithoutExtension (String filePath)
      • LastUpdateDateTime (String filePath)
      • MoveFile (String filePath, String newDirectory)
      • ReadFileBytes (String filePath)
      • ReadFileFirstLine (String filePath)
      • ReadFileText (String filePath)
      • ReadFileText (String filePath, String codePage)
      • WriteBytesToFile (String filePath, ByteArray bytes)
      • WriteTextToFile (String filePath, String text)
    • Date Time With Offset
      • ToDateTimeOffsetFromDateTime (dateTime String)
      • ToUtc (DateTimeWithOffset)
      • ToDateTimeOffsetFromDateTime
      • ToDateTimeOffset (String dateTimeOffsetStr)
      • ToDateTimeFromDateTimeOffset
    • GUID
      • NewGuid
    • Encoding
      • ToBytes
      • FromBytes
      • UrlEncode
      • UrlDecode
    • Regular Expressions
      • ReplaceRegEx
      • ReplaceRegEx (Integer StartAt)
    • TimeSpan
      • Minutes
      • Hours
      • Days
      • Milliseconds
    • Matching
      • Soundex
      • DoubleMetaphone
      • RefinedSoundex
  • Report Model
    • User Guide
      • Report Model Tutorial
    • Report Model Interface
      • Field Properties
      • Pattern Properties
      • Region Properties
      • Report Browser
      • Report Options
    • Use Cases
      • Applying Pattern to Line
      • Auto-Creating Data Regions and Fields
      • Auto-Parsing
      • Creating Multi-Column Data Regions
      • Floating Patterns and Floating Fields
      • How to Work with Microsoft Word (Doc/Docx) Files in a Report Model
      • How to Work With OCR Scanned Files in a Report Model
      • How to Work With PDF Scaling Factor in a Report Model
      • Line Count
      • Pattern Count
      • Pattern is a Regular Expression
    • Exporting Options
      • Exporting a Report Model
      • Exporting Report Model to a Dataflow
    • Miscellaneous
      • Astera Report Model: Performance on Different Hardware Settings and Case Complexities
      • Microsoft Word and Rich Text Format Support
      • Importing Monarch Models
  • Project Management
    • Project Management
      • Deployment
      • Parameterization
    • Job Scheduler
      • Scheduling and Running Jobs on a Server
  • Web Services
    • Configuring Google Drive API through REST Client in Astera
    • Connecting to Eloqua using Astera REST API
    • POSTing Data Using the REST Client
    • Using the REST Client to Download a Text File
  • Metadata Management
    • Lineage and Impact Analysis
  • Connectors and Providers
    • Setting Up Oracle ODP.Net Connectivity in Astera
    • Running Microsoft Access Database Engine with Astera
    • Oracle Client Tools Setup
    • Oracle Data Load Options
  • Miscellaneous
    • Job Trace Improvements
    • SmartMatch Feature
    • Synonym Dictionary File
    • Using the Data Source Browser in Astera
  • Best Practices
    • Astera Best Practices - Dataflows
    • Cardinality Errors FAQs
    • Overview of Cardinality in Data Modeling
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  • Upgrading The Database
  • Automatic Cluster Upgrade Instructions
  • Manual Cluster Upgrade Instructions
  1. Release Notes

Upgrading Astera 6 to Version 7

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Last updated 1 year ago

Applies To:

  • Astera 6

Upgrading The Database

Astera 7.6 is shipped with new features and functionalities that require an update to the Cluster Database used by the Integration Server. This article provides information on how to upgrade the Cluster Database for use with Astera 7.6.

Automatic Cluster Upgrade Instructions

Astera can automatically perform an upgrade of an existing Cluster Database to version 7.6 with the Upgrade Cluster Database command.

Steps to Upgrade:

  1. Install the most recent Astera Client (7.6).

  2. Using the Astera Client, navigate to the main menu and select Server > Upgrade Cluster Database.

  1. Connect to the Cluster Database with an older version.

Manual Cluster Upgrade Instructions

Prior to any upgrade, we strongly recommend that you take a full backup of your repository database. Also, upgrading a lower level environment first (such as QA, UAT, etc.) is recommended prior to upgrading the Production environment. This will make it possible to sort out/resolve any issues before upgrading Production.

Steps to Upgrade:

Steps to Upgrade:

  1. Using Astera 6 client, run the following dataflow to export existing schedules into a comma delimited file.

Note: Prior to running the dataflow, you will need to update the database source object to point to the database where the Astera repository resides.

Download attached dataflow: Dataflow_ScheduleExport71

  1. Take a note of any existing Cluster Settings. These are available by right clicking the cluster in Server Explorer. These settings will need to be re-configured manually after the upgrade. It may be helpful to take screenshots of those settings for later reference. The settings include: Staging Directory, Purge Job Frequency Options, Email Notification Setup, and optionally, Server Profiles if a non-default profile was used prior to the upgrade.

  1. Run the Client installer and then the Server Installer to upgrade to Astera to 7.

  2. Using Centerprise client, go to Server menu > Build Cluster Database. Point it to the database hosting Centerprise repository.

Note: This will reset the repository.

  1. Use the dataflow below to import the schedules you have exported in Step 1.

Note: Prior to running the dataflow, you will need to change the database destination object to point to the database where the Astera repository resides.

Download attached example dataflow: Dataflow_ScheduleImport74

  1. Open Server Explorer, right-click your cluster and select ‘Cluster Settings’. Manually re-configure the relevant settings from Step 2. Optionally, manually reconfigure the Server Profiles setting if a non-default profile was used prior to the upgrade.

  2. Restart Astera server.

This completes the upgrade.

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