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    Resolved reading RAW data type

    Originally the field width was set to 16 and when it was set to this I could not select against the table using the Progress SQL Explorer nor the Progress Client tool and the ODBC connection would tell me the column was too long. I used the dbtools to change the length of the field to 30000 and...
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    Answered READING PROGRESS DB

    Thank you.
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    Answered READING PROGRESS DB

    I am new to Progress and a customer sent me two Progress 9.1D databases to read and produce some reports. The first database is very simple four user tables with columns of type integer, date and characters. The second database is not so simple. I have seven user tables four of which are...
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    Resolved reading RAW data type

    I'm unsure of the maximum size of the data in the column, I cannot use the length function on a field of type RAW. But even when I try a SELECT TOP 1 * from pub.t_bin and send the result to the screen either the _sqlsrv2 crashes or the SQL Server service crashes.
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    Resolved reading RAW data type

    I found the tool and expanded the column and now with their SQL Explorer tool I can get a results for that column. Of course it is just a string of characters in that window. I have my ODBCs working in MS SQL on all the tables that look like SQL tables but when I try and pull the RAW field...
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    Resolved reading RAW data type

    Sorry about that, yes it is 9.1D that I'm running. And I am brand new to Progress so I'm not sure what dbtool you are talking about but I'm looking for it. But I have a question about what I'm trying to do here. I've been given three different progress databases and been asked to exchange data...
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    Resolved reading RAW data type

    I have a table with at column defined as RAW and when I use it in a select statement I'm told "Column r$_data in Table Pub.t_bin has value exceeding its max length or precision.]". Can someone help me pull the value from this column? Thank you
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    Answered Accessing Progress DB sent from a client.

    Thank you. I've looked for the users in the DB and did not see any. I'll give this a try and keep looking through the forum.
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    Answered Accessing Progress DB sent from a client.

    I have client that is using Progress DB 9.1 and they have asked me to read the database. I purchased the Progress DB 9.1. I could not get it to install and run properly on any of my XP machines that were being used. I had to bring out an old pentium machine and install a fresh version of...
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