how to access database - Progress 8.1a personal

[pokemon]

hello.
Im'a database newbie so apologize for asking (maybe) stupid questions:

I have a simple application that runs on a progress 8.1a personal database.
Unfortunately the damn thing doesnt work anymore. I need to get the data from the DB file because I thought I would create the application in MS Access but so far I havent had any luck with opening the DB.
As I understand, "personal database" means that it does not listen on a network port but accesses the DB file directly. What do I need to do?

I tried using Progress 8.2b but in Data Admnistration console the ADMIN menu is disabled. Why so ?

Help really appreciated.

 

[Tarby777]

That's right - it doesn't use a network port, and it only accepts local connections. You have two choices:

1) Start a broker (_mprosrv) for it and make a multi-user connection.

2) Do not start a broker. Make a single-user (-1) connection.

I'm not sure if you can do this in 8.1, but in later versions, you can right-click the DB file and choose "start single user session" or something similar.

In its simplest form, a single-user connection looks like this:

c:\MyDir> prowin32 -db MyDatabase -1

HTH
Tarby

PS: Data Admin is usually disabled only when either a) you don't have a database connected or b) you only have a runtime Progress licence.