New to Progress DB - recommended reading?

connerjo

connerjo

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Good morning everyone! I am a SQL Server admin with about 16 years experience with the product. Our company just purchased a product that uses Progress and my team (which I lead) is now responsible for this as well. Having never used this DB platform, I was wondering if you guys could recommend books, articles, tools, etc. that I could use to get up to speed - I've already gotten the admin doc from the Progress website.

Also, is there some sort of development version of the product that I could use to play around with?

Thanks in advance!

Jeremy
 
The database administration guide is a very good starting point. For more in depth knowledge I would recommend you to have a look at http://www.dbappraise.com/ - that is Tom's web site.

Regarding the development: You must understand that the Progress/OpenEdge database is not an SQL database in the first place. It has SQL capabilities but the standard way of using it is together with programs developed with the Progress ABL ( formerly known as the 4GL ). It is most likely that the application you are talking about is developed in the ABL. In order to develop with the Progress ABL you need to buy a development license from Progress. Full stop. If you want to use it with SQL you can pick any SQL tool of you choice that supports ODBC or JDBC - but you need to set up the SQL92 engine and SQL security accordingly as it will not work as you'd expect it out-of-the-box.

Heavy Regards, RealHeavyDude.
 
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