[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: Editing Database Files Directly - Validation

[ujj1]

One of our developers asked what happens if someone uses notepad or notepad++ or some other text editing tool to edit data in the database extents directly. We tried it on a throw away database and as expected we saw errors like wrong dbkey and other system errors that would shut down the db server. Are there cases were editing the DB files using a text editor or hex editor would not result in block corruption? I'm talking about simple edits where that a novice user would attempt and not a tech savvy user/progress database engineer.

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