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  1. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Files in DLCWRK folder aren't getting deleted, causing disk space utilization to spike

    I don't know what you mean by this. Are you saying you think this disk usage isn't related to temp-tables and other AVM temporary files?
  2. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Files in DLCWRK folder aren't getting deleted, causing disk space utilization to spike

    @Dan4gl Your inquiry is unrelated to the original post. In future, please start a new thread for a new issue. It seems that at some point Progress changed the way they handle session temporary files on Windows, in particular the DBI file. I don't know which version marked the change. It used...
  3. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Effect of moving from 128 to 256 RPB

    Me neither. Just like they made an undocumented enhancement, sometime between 11.7.6 and 11.7.16 (a time after the life cycle change when updates were only supposed to contain bug fixes), to add per-object stats for Type 2 areas in prostrct statistics, making it actually useful. Thanks...
  4. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Effect of moving from 128 to 256 RPB

    You mentioned doing cleanup (removing records); presumably from the largest table(s). "table-181" is 42.3% of the size of the data area. "table-234" is another 12.3%. I am guessing it involves one of these two? The rest are fairly small. If these tables will be purged occasionally it is...
  5. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Effect of moving from 128 to 256 RPB

    That depends on what you are trying to improve. That part still isn't clear to me. Nor is the basis for the conclusion that a failure to improve (whatever it is that we endeavour to improve) is "highly likely". We've had a look at a handful of tables but none that are big (i.e. worth...
  6. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Effect of moving from 128 to 256 RPB

    I assume the "RPB" column in your table is mean record size divided by 8192?
  7. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Effect of moving from 128 to 256 RPB

    These tables are so tiny that it isn't worth worrying about doing any tuning for them. Presumably, in this 4 GB database there are some more interesting tables? If a table is very large/fast-growing, it should have its own area. And its indexes should have their own area. Of course, there is...
  8. Rob Fitzpatrick

    TDE Clarification

    You're right James, the docs are not clear. The KB says that you need to use prorest ... -newinstance (create a new DB GUID) and then use proutil db -C epolicy manage keystore rebind. https://community.progress.com/s/article/000028091 https://community.progress.com/s/article/000028092 In my...
  9. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Question SAAS for Progress OpenEdge?

    There are SaaS-bsaed OpenEdge applications. You can read about database multi-tenancy in the documentation. As for security and privacy, those can mean many things to different people, so some detail is needed. As always, your options will be better if you use the latest release and commit to...
  10. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Spam

    I would hate to see that. Yes, the site could do with some more hands-on administration. But occasional spam aside, historically this site has had a very good signal-to-noise ratio. There is a lot of valuable content in all the posts of the regulars. It would be a shame to see that body of...
  11. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Spam

    Good call Patrice! That helps a lot until the posts themselves are deleted.
  12. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Working with Progress 9.1A

    I didn't check the 9.1D, as I already have them, but I was able to download individual 10.0A PDFs from the Wayback links. Thanks Stefan!
  13. Rob Fitzpatrick

    OpenEdge OECC 2.0 problems

    OECC monitors PASOE and databases, and we don't have a PASOE forum, so this thread may as well live here for now. ;) I haven't used OECC 2.0 yet. It is on my list to get to when I have a chance. Please keep us updated on what you learn with this issue!
  14. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Change AI Extent Sizes

    Agreed. In the past, some have argued in favour of using fixed-length extents to avoid paying the (theoretical) computational cost of extending the files. OpenEdge now provides the ability to pre-extend variable-length extents, so that should prevent having to pay that cost, and thus this...
  15. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Replication Questions

    If you have no empty AI extents (current extents are busy and others are full or locked), the database will continue writing to the busy extent as long as it can. If it is a variable-length extent, it will continue to grow. If it is a fixed-length extent, it will write until the extent fills...
  16. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Getting back the space

    This belongs in a new thread.
  17. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Dumping with Multiple Threads

    The original problem was stated as "recover a lot of "deleted" space after purging". And you have decided that the correct solution is purge/dump & load; specifically multi-threaded D&L. Why are you purging? Is it because you don't have the storage capacity you need? Is it because you are...
  18. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Dumping with Multiple Threads

    Binary dump does use an index. That is how it finds the records and determines their order in the dump file(s), and thus in the resulting table in the target. You use the -index n option to specify the dump index. Source...
  19. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Advanced database backup strategies

    Long story short, Progress added features like modern compression, multi-threaded backup, and multi-threaded restore, which might help you in the future. But they were added in 12.5 and later, so you won't get access to these features until you upgrade from the 12.2 (LTS, or Long-Term Support)...
  20. Rob Fitzpatrick

    Advanced database backup strategies

    It would help to know the specific release of Progress OpenEdge you are using, as probkup and prorest were enhanced later in the 12.x family of releases. The OE version format is major.minor.update, where major.minor is the release. E.g. "OpenEdge 12.8.7" is the 12.8 release with update 7...
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