I would have to go back and look as I did it such a long time ago. But it was an update on the user files. Forget which one in particular -- would have to look at the structure now as I am still running a very old version. But it set all users and the anon users to the default style sheets, number of notes displayed, etc.
The reason for the change in the database is because once we made all of the changes then it only worked for new users and not any of the existing users. So we forced it on everybody, then they could change thier personal settings after the fact. But it worked for what we wanted it to do.