Background
This tutorial describes how to UPGRADE dhis from 2.10 to 2.15 with MySQL on Windows.The target audiences are clients deploying dhis2 on MySQL. You dont need this tutotial if you are using postgresSQL or other supported RDBMS
DHIS is acronym for District Health Information Software. It is HMIS that allows you to manage aggregate with a flexible data model. You can also use dhis2 to collect, manage and analyse transactional, case-based data records.
DHIS 2 is free and open source software released under the liberal BSD license. It is developed in Java and runs on any platform with a JRE 7 installed. DHIS 2 is web-based and follows HTML 5 standards. You can download the WAR file and drop it into a Web container like Tomcat.
The DHIS2 community is increasing with developers from more countries. Supports from the developers to issues and bugs are rapid and fixes area almost immediate or included in the next release.
See more here http://www.dhis2.org/overview
Introduction
A client requested i should upgrade their DHIS from 2.10 to 2.15 on MySQL Windows x64 because they want to take advantage of the many advanced features the new release bundled with.
They have been running dhis2 for over 2 years with huge institutional data including aggregate and patient/primary data.
Upgrading DHIS2 to a higher build/release have never been any challenging until recent release 2.15.
I was able to complete the upgrade after some days of work and reading and everything seems to be working fine.
