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?

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.

OpenEdge Databases & SQL

Thinking about enabling SQL access to your OpenEdge database? Read this.

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