Collisisons in a MSA CRM 4 SP8 - CRM 7 SP4 upgrade

Hello everybody,
I have run the MAR Upgrade tool CRM 7.0 SP4 on a CRM MSA 4.0 SP8 landscape. In total 11 Change Lists have been imported. Each change list caused approximately 1000 collisions which is in total 11000 collisions. I am a bit surprised by that amount of collisions. Does anyone have the experience if so many collisions are normal and that it is worthwhile to proceed?
Some other questions:
- can it be that the CMT changelist is also a reason for collisions of the later imported SAP CLs?
- does each of the 11 CLs run into the same collision, e.g. if we have changed a SAP owned object that each of the 11 CL runs here into a collision, which would mean that we have actually only ca. 1000 collisions to resolve instead of 11000?
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Raquel

Thanks for your help Shankar,
Finally we have realized that the result: 11917 collisions, was not the number of the non-resolved collisions.
If you perform the following SQL statement on ARS_DB, you can get an overview about the collisions:
select state,count(*) from collision group by state
state 0 means non-resolved collisions
state 2 means resolved collisions
In fact, we only have 67 in state 0.
Regards,
Raquel

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