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Greg, I didn't dismiss "FOR EACH" (and Progress 4GL generally) as being a minor/unimportant issue. I dismissed it because here in Jakarta experienced Progress developers are nearly non-existent. If I opted for the AppServer approach I'd have to wear the overhead of training people from...

Ha! Ha! ... not too much hair left! I'll have to be doubly careful! :lol:

Once more I wish to thank everyone who has contributed to this thread. It really has been interesting and a number of issues came up that I was not aware of. I have decided to go "all Microsoft": VB.NET and SQL Server. Whilst I accept that it is quite possible to develop .NET client...

Let me add my penny's-worth ... Tom has pointed out that Progress 8.3D is unsupported. Progress has come a long way since 8.3D. PLEASE don't dismiss this issue - it really IS IMPORTANT! You really, really should advance - if not to 10.xx, then at least to 9.1E - which is (just) still...

Hi, mate. The others were not offering you suggestions; they were asking you questions. Tom is quite right (as usual ;)) - database tuning is a really big subject (big, big). You can spend years at it - and still there is more to learn. However - if you give some more information then I am...

Hi, Robert. When data is accepted by Progress into fields on the screen the data goes into what's called the "screen-buffer" - not into the database. The idea mainly being to keep the data away from the database until your program logic has been able to carry-out whatever validation checks...

You are quite safe. A probkup online does not require proquiet. The backup will be "as at" the moment when the backup commenced. During the backup there will be many instances where a block NOT backed-up yet gets updated. probkup "sees" that and backs-up the block prior to the update. If...

Hello Shireesh. You said you also wanted to append a comment on each source statement that was modified. I overlooked that. The new source, below, will do that too. Just set the comment string you want - and the preferred offset (how far along to the right you want the comment). If you want...

Here is a Perl program to do what you want: #! perl -w my $string1 = "coffee"; my $string2 = "tea"; my $indir = 'c:\Documents and Settings\ron\indir'; my $outdir = 'c:\Documents and Settings\ron\outdir'; opendir(DH, $indir) or die "Cannot open input directory: $indir : $!"; my @allfiles =...

As I think everyone has advised you - attempting to update a bunch of source files "in situ" is highly dangerous. You need to put your modified files in a different directory so you can check them and make certain that there have not been any "accidental" changes that you don't want. When you...

I hear alarm bells ringing. I think others with more detailed knowledge of the internals of Progress will get back to you on this one. My strong feeling is that you're asking for trouble backing-up the DB files unless the Brokers are all shut-down. The risk is that some updates to the DB may...

You don't happen to have Perl on your Windows machine, do you? It's a very easy job for Perl (ie, all files at the same time). You can download Perl for free from http://strawberryperl.com/ Get version 5.10.0.6. It will come down as as .msi file. Just double click it to install it. I can...

As a matter of interest ... are you making the same change to each source file? Are you always changing one particular string of characters into another one?

I'd use Notepad! :D

Thank you all for contributing to such an interesting topic! I am sorry I left you all debating by yourselves - but due to a technical glitch ProgressTalk temporarily locked me out and I couldn't post! (Thanks Tom for helping to fix it.) The licencing costs were mentioned a few times. I...

Larry, the new apps will be highly transactional. The first one will be a "job control" system for a company that hires-out security guards. Thanks for the feed-back so far. I was hoping for a bit more "meat" - some technical for-or-against points. My experience with Progress is that the...

Hi ... I've worked as a Solaris SysAdmin and Progress DBA (v8 and v9) for the past 13 years. I've written lots of 4gl code - but nearly all to support DBA work. I've not worked in the development of GUI applications at all. I've just scored a new job, to recruit a new (small) development...

Hi Matt, Sorry for being "late" - I only just saw this thread. I have extensive experience with exactly this problem - in exactly the same circumstances - using Progress 9.1D. However our sending and receiving platforms were Sun servers. Tom's advice to go up to 9.1E - or better to 10+ is...

Hi Ramya. I'm not too sure what you meant by your reference to restoring an "incremental" backup. If you have an incremental backup then you have to initially restore your last full backup and then one or more incremental backups (depends on whether you have "overlap", etc). If you explain...

Hi, Ann. I must say I support all of Tom's comments. Using AI is (IMHO) absolutely essential ... not optional. Every production database should use AI - otherwise you are always exposed to the risk of losing big chunks of your data in the event of a failure of some sort. It is SO important...