The OpenEdge DBA Files

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.

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!

Use ProTop to monitor and alert for lock table usage and discover the cause of lock table overflows in your database application.

Why are Collections practical when developing Progress OpenEdge applications?

"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.

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!

Tip #2 - Creating a test database

Now that we have a shortcut opening the Desktop or the GUI Procedure Editor and the AppBuilder ready to develop (see Jaison's tip #1), I am throwing cold water... Calm down! We must create and set up the test database for what we are going to do!

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.

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:

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!

Tip #1: Setting up a development env

This first tip is to create a development shortcut for building programs. First step is to collect three files that we will use in this shortcut, these are:

Blocked sessions are the silent killers of enterprise applications. No one in IT notices there's a problem until the business is seriously affected.