Progress 8.3B wanted

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kevin_w

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When i open a db with the progress data administration-tool i get a message that i only can read db with these version of progress, so i only can look but make no changes. The version of progress is integrated in the program so i think this is a kind of lite version. So i wanna delete records from a database, but can't do it now, someone can help me or have a full version of progress 8.3B ??


Thanks,
 
i've got it



i've got older copies of progress 8.3 and 6.3 also

... but i don't think it's legal to just give'em away



by the way if you've got progress 9 / openedge 10

i think it also ships with older legacy tools including progress 8.3, i think
 
Progress 8.3

I'm now working with version 8.3, but i can't edit the db only read :-(
I' only use these for study use so ... I'm really looking for it, and it's a old version so maybe we can have a talk about it...

You can sent me a private message also.


Thanks
 
there's alot of thing i'll do to help someone out

going to jail isn't one of them ;)



but if you only need a progress version to play around with go to possenet.org

what used to be the progress open source initiative but it's now a ghost place



download the "progress developer's briefcase"

which are the progress 9.1d exe's



download and compile the sources "baselines"

which are all the .p, .i, .w etc. that make everything from

the simple util's like the dictionary ... to the adm2, dynamics framework

and all together make up openedge 10.0A



keep in mind that it's not a product you just double-click and install

you're going to kind of assemble it yourself

and it will probably take a couple or more of painstaking weeks ...

it's actually for the pretty advanced users

but if you use the installation readme.doc's and some help you'll get by it



oh ! also the license expiration date for it has passed

so you're gonna have to set /or write a script

to set back the date a few month back



here's a few short tip's that have helped me along the way ;)



if you wanna get answers read ! chats and forums are more for fun

psdn.com is a good place to start.

you can download all the docs, 50 somewhat books for free



but if you do, start at peg.com it's kind of archaic like usenet

but it's where the bulk of smart people hang out

the knowledge base at the progress site is also a great resource



progress is not a language you can just learn as you go along

because it's 4gl not 3gl like c or pascal, it's more implicit then explicit

.. you're better off studing it and hitting the books



get into adm2/appbuilder and dynamics not just 4gl coding

coding progs from scratch is just too hard/slow and just isn't as good

as building progs by quickly putting together powerful objects



i've already said to much HTH
 
OK Thanks,


But i think that it will be to complicate it for me :-)
I just wanna make a new empty db the old db contains demo-files and they must out of the db, but i can't get this thing working.
So i don't know if it taking much time to make a new db, maybe you can do it for me ?? I only have an db and bi file so no df-file and i can't make these file so ... Can you help me please ?
 
what exactly is your situation ?



progress version ?

operation system ?

what are you trying to do ?

and anything else that would be important to know ?

by the way i'm just curious where are you from ?



creating an empty new database is pretty fast and simple

you can even os copy "empty.db" and use that

but i'm not sure you can os rename it

(you probably can because if you're using progress 8

it's a single volume database meaning no d1, d2, d3 ... extents)



but i don't know what's you've got

and what you're trying to do ?
 
ranger101 said:
what exactly is your situation ?



progress version ?

operation system ?

what are you trying to do ?

and anything else that would be important to know ?

by the way i'm just curious where are you from ?



creating an empty new database is pretty fast and simple

you can even os copy "empty.db" and use that

but i'm not sure you can os rename it

(you probably can because if you're using progress 8

it's a single volume database meaning no d1, d2, d3 ... extents)



but i don't know what's you've got

and what you're trying to do ?
Click to expand...

Ok the situation is that:

Im working with a kind of maintenance program that use a progress db,
but this db contains some demo records that i wanna wipe out. I'm not have any knowledge from progress so i just try it now by reading, searching, ...
The only thing that has been done is cleaning the db so that it's empty and no records are in it, but the db schema (tables, fields,...) must stay in.

The program is running under progress 8.3B on a Windows 2000 Pro computer.

I'm from Belgium btw

Regards,


Kevin
 
nice ... sending me only the .db file :)



any database even the most basic as you can get ones

are made up of more than one file



at the very least a progress 8 single volume database

also has a primary recovery area aka the .bi file



if you only wan't to create a simple database

for playing around with

not for your production database, right ?

it's pretty simple to do it with the data administration tool



step 1. dump your data definitions

step 2. create a new empty database and connect to it

step 3. and load the data definitions you created earlier ... that's it



go over to psdn.com -> psdn library -> online documentation ->

openedge 10.0b -> basic database tools

lookup create database and dump/load data definitions



i trust you to handle it from here HTH
 
Hi,


The problem is that i have a progress version that not allowed to change anything on the database. I can only use it as read-only. :confused:
 
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