Recent content by pietervdm

Hi Cecil I'm not aware of an easy solution to provide read only access. Ideally it would be handled by the application using the database. I would not advise on creating one big transaction. The database will fall over somewhere. Either the bi file will use up the available space on disk...

When we've had that kind of delays it normally is the disk or the cpu running at 100%. Seeing that your -B is very small, I suspect you must read most of your data directly from disk and not from memory (unless you have a very small database). Assuming a 8K block size 25000 blocks is about...

It also works for me. Notes I have on what I need to do to make sure it works: 1. Only one database must be connected (I guess you could make sure the database you want to change is the first connected database or set dictdb, but to make sure I would only connect the database I want to change)...

Hi Mathew If you want to dump data to load it back into another Progress database there are other ways of dumping the data, but if you want to dump the data to a text file so you can use it somewhere else the easiest way will be: Create a file in vi or notepad: OUTPUT TO c:\myfile.txt. FOR...