diff --git a/scripts/patch-databases.sh b/scripts/patch-databases.sh
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+#!/bin/bash -x
+
+# This script performs a common maintenance operation of updating
+# status fields to version "15.3" from "15".
+
+kubectl get databaseclaim -A -o json | jq -r '.items[] | select((.spec.dbVersion == null or .spec.dbVersion == "") and (.status.activeDB.dbversion != "15.3")) | [.metadata.namespace, .metadata.name] | @tsv' | while IFS=$'\t' read -r namespace name; do
+    kubectl get databaseclaim -n "$namespace" "$name" -ojsonpath='{.metadata.namespace}/{.metadata.name}:{.status.activeDB.dbversion}{"\n"}'
+    kubectl patch --dry-run=server databaseclaim "$name" -n "$namespace" --type=merge --subresource=status -p '{"status":{"activeDB":{"dbversion":"15"}}}'
+
+    kubectl patch --dry-run=server databaseclaim "$name" -n "$namspace" --type=merge -p '{"metadata":{"annotations":{"reconcile-now":"true"}}}'
+done