The Cure for Chaos: Is DIY Worth the Time, Effort and Risk?
Now more than ever, the marketplace is flooded with tools that can support, automate, and/or analyze practically any aspect of your application lifecycle. Many of these tools are widely adopted and open source (read: common and free). Does common mean best-of-breed? Is stringing together free (often unsupported) open source solutions a prudent strategy for managing enterprise applications?
Should you DIY?
Diet for a fat client
Gone are the days when a client can snack on fast food records served up directly from the McServer. Reading records one at a time over a network connection is like consuming empty calories. It’s not a good situation where the client is so fat that it can’t move or function quickly.
New Programmer Series: Setting up your IDE
Today’s blog post comes from Jaison Antoniazzi, a 20+ year OpenEdge expert from Brazil and author of two books in Portuguese on OpenEdge.
Jaison has embarked on an ambitious project for 2022: 365 days of Progress OpenEdge development tips, which he is sharing on LinkedIn!
Finding code : Lock Table Overflow
Use ProTop to monitor and alert for lock table usage and discover the cause of lock table overflows in your database application.
OpenEdge Collections: What are they? Why use them?
Why are Collections practical when developing Progress OpenEdge applications?
It's Time to Manage Your Extents!
"Will ProTop tell me when it is time to add a new fixed and or variable extent to my OpenEdge database?" It most certainly can.
New Programmer Series: Adding a Test Database
Today’s blog post comes from Jaison Antoniazzi, a 20+ year OpenEdge expert from Brazil and author of two books in Portuguese on OpenEdge.
Jaison has embarked on an ambitious project for 2022: 365 days of Progress OpenEdge development tips, which he is sharing on LinkedIn!
Schema Area Gotchas
The schema area should not be used to store application data. And, if you are getting ready to dump & load, certain schema attributes require special attention.
The Curse of Deleted Key Placeholders
This week, Patrice Perrot from PROGINOV joins Paul Koufalis to talk about deleted key placeholders.
After a massive data purge, you run idxcompact, right? You want to remove all those deleted key placeholders polluting your index.
Guess what? Idxcompact doesn't remove those placeholders the way you think it does.
What is a Deleted Key Placeholder?
From the Progress Documentation:
