I recently installed Siebel 8.1 on my system (in addition to Siebel 7.7 and Siebel 7.8). As I didn’t had my local extracted I copied my friends DBF file in Siebel\Tools\Local directory in order to explore the application. I started Siebel Tools, put in local user id and password and logged in successfully (without any [...]

There can be several reasons to create new Local Data Sources such as: Same System is being used by several users simultaneously You need same local database but two different repositories You need same tools installation and several different local databases

Database is an indispensable part of any software including Siebel. Then also rarely do we know or try to know that how our software is interacting or connecting with database. In this series of articles I will try to divulge the details of what happens in the background and how this information can be helpful [...]